198 CAMPOPHAGIDZ 
Prevost’s Helmet-bird is confined to the Island of 
Madagascar. 
According to Milne Edwards and Grandidier, it inhabits 
the large forests of the eastern side of the island, where 
parties of three or four silently wend their way through 
the tangled boughs in search of large beetles and other 
insects which form their staple food. Their flight is heavy 
and undulating, and they are known to the Betsimisarakas 
as the “Siketribe.” In the Sakalava language, the Rev. 
J. Sibree informs us, they are called “ Fondrampory” and 
“Vorontsarakesa.” 
Family UI. CAMPOPHAGIDAL. 
The members of this family, commonly known as the Cuckoo-Shrikes, 
are specially characterized by the feathers of the back, the shafts of which 
terminate in sharp spines, to be readily felt by passing the finger against 
them from the tail towards the mantle. The bill and feet are blackish, and 
of moderate size, and in their other characters they agree fairly well with the 
Vangide and Laniide, and, like the members of those families, the scutella- 
tion of the tarsus is confined to the front, the sides and back being bilami- 
nated, not covered with small scales as in the Prionopide. 
The family Campophagide comprises more than one hundred species: 
it extends eastward from the Ethiopian region over southern Asia, the Philip- 
pines, New Guinea, Australia, and the intervening islands of the Pacific. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
a. Males, with some metallic gloss; females with some 
bright yellow in the plumage. 
at. With bare wattles atthe gape . . =) - eLobotos: 
b1. No wattles at the gape; males mostly Glace . . + Campephaga. 
b. No metallic gloss in either sex, and no bright yellow in 
the plumage. 
ct. Upper parts grey or blue, alike in both sexes; the 
sharp bas of the back more strongly deve- 
lopediensuerner Coracina. 
dt. Upper parts grey in Ty males: prowl in the females 
the shaft-spines of the back less developed . . . . Osynotus. 
