428 Ant. Reichenow und Her man Schalow: 



of the shauks equally white and only marked, iustead of by nume- 

 rous regulär bands, by a law dark transverse spots. The under 

 tail-coverts, one inch longer than in Cuculus sparveroi'des, show, 

 on the contrary, each, several large and complete transverse black 

 bands, whereas in the Indian species this marking occurs only 

 accidentally and is, moreover, reduced to a few obsolete and im- 

 perl'ect transverse spots. The under coverts of the wing are pure 

 white, and not of a rufous colour, transversed with brownish 

 black bands. The black bands, so couspicuous on the inner webs 

 of the quills in the Indian bird are entirely wanting in the 

 species of Madagascar. The dark colour of the upper parts is, 

 in our new bird, more dusky, without auy reddish hue or ashy 

 finge. The tail-feathers show the usual terminal large black band, 

 but it is bordered, at the end, with white and followed by a white 

 spot, but the other bands, four or five in number, which render the 

 tail-feathers of the Indian species so conspicuous, do not exist in 

 our new bird. Last of all, it must be observed that the bird has 

 the extremities of both series of quills and of the great wing- 

 coverts margined with pure white aud that the bill is strenger and 

 much larger at its base and that the nostrils have not a sort of 

 tubulär aspect but that of a simple oblique split. Iris of an uniform 

 black color. 



Measures of a female speeimen : Total length fourteen inches 

 (French measure). Wing eight inch. and nine lines. Tail eight 

 inch. Tarse eleven lines. Bill from front eleven lines. 



Hab.: Madagascar. 



PICWAE. 



Dendropicus Sharpii. 



M. E. u s t a 1 e t, Nouv. Arch. d. Mus. II. S., T. IL, Fase. I. p. 62. 



B. Lafresnayi affinis, sed colore et statura diversus: pileo 

 fusco-rufescente, occipite coccineo, cristato ; capitis lateribus gulaque 

 albis, vix nigro striatis; dorso et uropygio laete olivaceo-flavesceu- 

 tibus; caudae tectricibus superioribus dorso concoloribus; alarum 

 tectricibus fuscis, albido limbatis; remigibus brunneis, extus flavo, 

 intus albido transversim signatis; rectricibus bruuneis flavido utrinque 

 signatis; remigum et rectricum scapis flavis; subtus albo-virescens, 

 crebro nigrante striolatus, rostro et pedibus fusco-plumbeis. — 



$: mari concolor, sed occipite nigro. 



S juv: dorso transversim fusco zonato, gula striata, occipite 

 rubro et nigro maculato. 



Long. tot. 0,130; ala 0,085; cauda 0,055; culraeu 0,010; tarsus 

 0,013 M. 



Hab.: Ogowe (Westafrica). 



ALCEDINIDAE. 



Ceyx gentiana. 



Tristram, Ibis 1879. p. 438 tab. XL 



C. rostro nigro; capite nigro, ultramarino striato, macula inter 

 nares et oculos necnon macula postauriculari albis, dorso medio et 



