240 PBOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



All the subspecies of Pisorhina magica should be ranked as forms of 

 Pisorhina menadensis; for the original description of the latter' appeared 

 several years in advance of the former.^ 

 These various races are as follows : 



Pisorhina menaderisis menadensis (Quoy and (jaimard). 



Pisorhina menadensis magica (Miiller). 



Pisorhina menadensis leucospila (Gray). 



Pisorhina menadensis houruensis (Sharpe). 



Pisorhina me^iadensis morotensis (Sharpe). 



Pisorhina menadensis siaoensis (Schlegel). 



Pisorhina menadensis albiventris (Sharpe). 



Pisorhina menadensis rutila (Pucheran). 



Pisorhina menadensis brooMi (Sharpe), 



Pisorhina menadensis sulaensis (Hartert). 



Family PSITTAOID^. 



CORACOPSIS NIGRA (Linnseus) . 



Psittacus niger LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1, 1758, p. 99. 

 Coracopsis nigra Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, p. 680. 



A pair of adults from the forest of East Imerina. The female is 

 similar to the male, but in size is rather less, and in color throughout 

 not so deep. 



Family CUCULID^. 



COUA REYNAUDII Pucheran, 



CoMa reynaudii Pucheran, Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 51. 



Three specimens from the forest of East Imerina. Two of these are 

 immature birds, having the rufous of crown and forehead much 

 obscured by dull olive, the greater and median wing-€0verts tipped 

 with chestnut, the lower surface much mixed with the same color. 

 The adult is noticeably paler below than a specimen collected by Dr. 

 Abbott 80 miles northwest of Mahauoro. 



COUA CiERULEA (Linnaeus). 



Cucultis cwruleus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1, 1766, p. 171. 

 Coua cmrulea Gray, in Griffith's An. Kingdom, VII, 1829, p. 458. 



Three specimens from the forest of East Imerina. " The flesh round 

 the eyes a most brilliant lightish blue." These individuals are some- 

 what paler, both above and below, than most of the others at present 

 available, but this difference does not seem to be correlated with local- 

 ity. Two of them, taken early in February, are in process of molt, 

 this observable chiefly in the wings and tail. 



'Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage de TAstrolahe, I, 1826-34, p. 170, pi. ii, fig. 2. 

 ^Mulier, Verhandl. Natuurl. Gesch. Nederl., Zool., 1840-1844, p. 110. 



