74 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [Feb. 2, 
brown, broadly barred with darker brown, the primaries paler on 
their outer margins; upper tail-coverts brown, very plainly barred 
across with darker brown ; tail brown, tipped with white and crossed 
with eight blackish bands; loral plumes and feathers over the 
eye white, the former with black hair-like bristles overhanging the 
nostrils ; sides of face dull whitish, streaked minutely with brown, 
the hinder part of the ear-coverts entirely brown ; sides of neck dark 
brown, barred with white; chin white, with narrow brown shaft-lines; 
lower throat whitish, thickly barred with brown in about equal 
proportions; rest of under surface pure white, regularly banded 
across with dark brown, the bars becoming wider on the lower flanks 
and under tail-coverts, the thighs more minutely barred; under 
wing-coverts white, transversely banded with brown like the breast, 
the lower series more broadly banded with blackish brown, and more 
resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is greyish barred with 
dark brown, the lower surface of the tail being similarly coloured ; 
bill black, yellowish at base of both mandibles; feet yellow, claws 
black. Total length 26 inches, culmen 1°7, wing 13°5, tail 13°3, 
tarsus 3°6. 
This new species has been discovered by Mr. Crossley in the 
southern portion of Madagascar. The affinities of the genus have been 
indicated above; and I have only to add that its general coloration 
resembles that of a Goshawk, and suggested the specific name to me. 
MAcHZRHAMPHUS ANDERSSONI (Gurney); Sharpe, Cat. B. i. 
p. 343. 
The late Mr. Lormier shot a specimen of this rare species near 
Tamatave, which is now in the British Museum. Another example, 
also from the vicinity of Tamatave, was in one of the consignments 
sent to Mr. Boucard, and has now passed into the collection of 
Professor Newton. 
Fatco concotor, Temm.; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 405. 
Mr. Boucard’s collector sent an adult male and a young female from 
the Forest of Woodoot, both killed on the 10th of March, 1874. 
CERCHNEIS NEWTONI (Gurney) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 433. 
Although not sent by Mr. Crossley, the British Museum has 
secured a good series of this bird, collected partly by the late Mr. 
Lormier and partly by Mr. Boucard’s correspondent, the specimens 
sent by the latter having been obtained in the neighbourhood of 
Tamatave and at Manham in January and February 1874. 
CERCHNEIS ZONIVENTRIS (Peters); Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 447. 
An adult specimen was sent by Mr. Boucard’s collector from 
Marancette, North Madagascar, where it was shot in June 1874. 
Family Coracnip2. 
ATELORNIS CROSSLEYI, sp. n. (Plate XIV.) 
IIead rufous bay, iightest on the lores, darker on the ear-coverts, 
