216 CORACINA CINEREA 
The Madagascar Grey Cuckoo-Shrikes are confined to that 
island. 
They are divisible into two subspecies. The typical C. 
cinerea, Mill. is a slightly smaller bird, with the throat and 
front of the head dusky grey, and is confined to the northern 
half of the island, while the larger southern race, C. magpor, 
may be most readily distinguished by the entire neck, sides of 
head and the forehead being jet black. 
According to Grandidier, these birds are always met with 
in small bands of eight or ten individuals wherever there are 
large trees, among the upper branches of which they seek 
their insect food. Their eggs are a rosy white mottled and 
finely spotted with red, mostly towards the thicker end, and 
measure 1°11 x 0'8. There is a clutch of five in the British 
Museum, presented by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan, from 
Betsileo. 
The Rev. J. Sibree informs us that these Cuckoo-Shrikes 
are called by the North Sakalava tribes “ Vorontaniomby,” by 
the North Betsimisarakas ‘“ Angave,” and on the south-east 
coast “Androbaki.” Of these only the latter name would 
refer to C. major. 
In the British Museum C. cinerea is represented by eight 
adult specimens and one young bird from Mr. Pollen’s expe- 
dition. Of C. major there are the following specimens: $, 
Antongil Bay (Verreaux); ¢, ?, 2%, Ankafana Forest (Cowan), 
also the type and five other specimens, collected by Crossley. 
Tf we draw a line from Manambulo on the east coast to 
Antongil Bay it would roughly indicate the boundary of the 
range of these two forms: both have been obtained by 
Crossley during his travels in Madagascar. 
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