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of the body and thighs olive-green; under wing-coverts yellowish 
buff, the edge of the wing bright yellow; wings and tail brown, mar- 
gined with greenish olive, the inner secondaries dull olive-brown, the 
imner webs fulvescent on their interior margin ; bill horn-brown, the 
lower mandible yellowish; feet light fleshy brown. Total length 6 
_ Inches, culmen 0°6, wing 2°65, tail 2-7, tarsus 0°83. 
I have already (P. Z.S. 1871, p. 314) referred to M. Jules 
Verreaux’s assurance that Bernieria major and B. minor were sexes ; 
and of this new species I believe both sexes are represented in the 
present collection, as the second specimen sent measures as follows : — 
Total length 6°5 inches, culmen 0°8, wing 2°75, tail 2°7, tarsus 0°87. 
This species is smaller than B.. madagascariensis and is at once 
distinguished by its brighter colours and yellow eye-ring (whence the 
specific name). 
The woodcut (p. 75, figs. 2 and 3) illustrates the peculiar confor- 
mation of the eye-ring in this species. 
Family Corvin. 
Euryceros prevosti, Less. ; Hartl. Faun. Madg. p. 59. 
Mr. Crossley has sent several specimens of this unique and curious 
form. When in England he assured me that the bill of the living 
bird was pearly and exactly like the inside of an oyster-shell, fading 
away soon after death. 
Family ScoLopacipz. 
TEREKIA CINEREA. 
Mr. Boucard’s collector sent one specimen from the neighbour- 
hood of Tamatave. I do not remember having seen this bird noted 
as an inhabitant of Madagascar. 
The following notes refer to species already mentioned by me in 
former papers. 
ARTAMIA LEUCOCEPHALA (Gm.); Sharpe, P. Z.S. 1871, p. 318. 
Mr. Crossley has sent a most instructive series of this species, illus- 
trating the progress from immaturity to the adult stage; and I there- 
fore give a few remarks on these birds. Artamia bernieri, figured 
by Schlegel and Pollen, has been stated to be the young of A. leuco- 
cephala (cf. P. Z.8. 1871, p. 318); but if this be the case it must 
be the very first plumage ; for the series seems perfectly continuous 
as represented in Mr. Crossley’s collection. 
Young. Bill yellowish white; general colour ashy grey, with a 
brown shade on the back: wing-coverts with slight rufous edgings ; 
throat and chest greyish, the latter with narrow dusky cross lines ; 
rest of under surface buff, narrowly waved with dusky grey ; under 
wing-coverts greyish, 
More adult. Bill a little more dusky whitish ; upper surface 
greyish, glossed slightly with metallic greenish ; under surface nearly 
uniform buffy white, shaded with greyish on the throat and sides 
of the face; only a faint trace of bars on the flanks. 
