CORACINA CINEREA 215 
e+. Breast like the back grey or blue. 
e*. With pale ends to outer tail-feathers . . . . . . preussi, 
f?. No pale ends to tail-feathers. 
a’, General plumage grey. 
Cea liarceritailabout4en . . cf... s # « « . - G@Std: 
b+. Smaller; tailabout3‘7. . . . . . . . . . pura. 
68, General plumage blue. . . . .... 2. =. . agured, 
Coracina cinerea. 
Muscicapa cinerea, P. L. S. Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 171 (1776) Madagascar. 
Campephaga cinerea, Milne Edw. and Grand. Hist. Madag. Ois. i. p. 
393, pls. 156a, figs. 2, 304, fig. 4 egg (1885). 
Graucalus cinereus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv. p. 28 (1879); Sibree, Ibis, 
1891, pp. 423, 437; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 679 (1896). 
Muscicapa kinki, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enul. p. 31 (1783). 
Muscicapa cana, Gm. S. N. i. p. 940 (1788). 
Ceblepyris grisea, Less, Traité, p. 369 (1831). 
Ceblepyris madagascariensis, Verr. Cat. Coll. Rivoli, p. 5 (1846). 
Subspecies a. Coracina major. 
Ceblepyris major, Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 389 Ankavandre. 
Campephaga cinerea, Milne Edw. and Grand. Hist. Mad. Ois. Atlas, 
ii. pl. 163. 
Adults. Head and neck dusky grey shading almost into black on the 
ear-coverts, sides and back of the neck; remainder of upper parts lead-grey, 
with the greater portion of the quills blackish, their inner edges white 
like the under wing-coverts; tail with the centre feathers grey and the 
remainder blackish, with broad grey ends to the two outer pairs, breast 
and under tail-coverts pale ash-grey. ‘Iris dark brown; bill and feet 
black”’ (Grandidier). Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 38 to 4-4, 
tail 3-7, tarsus 08. N. Madagascar. 
Young. Differs in having the feathers of the hinder crown and back of 
neck edged with white; greater coverts and inner secondaries also edged 
with white; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills pure white; 
throat grey; remainder of under parts white, mottled on the chest with 
a few brown shaft-marks inclining to rounded spots; flanks and under 
tail-coverts with obscure dusky concentric bars, 
Type of C. major. Differs in being larger and in having the crown dusky 
grey and the remainder of the head and neck black; under wing-coverts 
and pale inner edges of the quills slightly greyer. Total length 9°5 inches, 
culmen 0:7, wing 4:5, tail 4-0, tarsus 0°85. Ankavandre (Crossley). Two 
similar birds, male and female, collected by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan, at 
Ankafana, have the wings 4:5 inches in length. 
