NO. 1197. BIEDS FROM MADAGASCAR— OBEBROLSER. 243 



Family MOTACILLID^. 



MOTACILLA FLAVIVENTRIS Hartlaub. 



Motacilla flaviventris Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn., 1860, p. 94 (from Verreaux). 



Two specimens in ratlier worn plumage. 



The specific name Jiaviiie7itris in this connection is commonly credited 

 to Verreaux;' but the first description of the species seems to have 

 been published by Hartlaub, who, therefore, rather than Yerreaux, 

 should, as above given, be cited as the proper authority.^ 



Family PYCNOIS^OTID^. 



TYLAS EDUARDI Hartlaub. 

 Tylas eduardi Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, p. 152, pi. xviii. 



One specimen, from the forest of East Imerina. This is an imma- 

 ture bird, and differs from the adult in that the forehead and throat 

 are much mixed with white, the greater and median coverts tipped with 

 ochr aceou s . " Ir i s bro w n . " 



HYPSIPETES MADAGASCARIENSIS (Miiller), 



Tardus madagascariensis Muller, Syst. Nat., Anhang, 1776, p. 139. 

 Hypsipetes madagascariensis Schlegel, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1866, p. 422. 



Four specimens from East Imerina. "IriiS brown; feet reddish 

 yellow." 



The only character adduced by Dr. Sharpe ^ for the differentiation of 

 Ixocincla from Hypsipetes is the tarsal scutellation, a distinction which 

 examination of a series of perfect specimens does not sustain, in so far 

 at least as is concerned comparison of the present species with psaroides, 

 the type of Hypsipetes. Whatever may be the affinities of the other 

 forms, with which we at present have nothing to do, psaroides and 

 madagascariensis are strictly congeneric. 



Family TIMELIIDJE. 



BERNIERIA MADAGASCARIENSIS (Gmelin). 



Muscicapa madagascariensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 940. 

 Bernieria madagascariensis Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Oru., 1860, p. 90. 



One specimen from the forest of East Imerina. This is a young 

 bird in first plumage, and differs from the adult in the very dingy, less 

 greenish color of the upper parts, particularly the back, and in the 

 duller, more buffy color of the lower surface. 



' Cat. Rivoli Coll., 1846, p. 9. 



2 See also Eichmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 1897, p. 688. 



"> Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VII, 1881, p. 45. 



