INHABITING MADAGASCAR ETC. 4^ 



and in Mauritius, was figured by Jardine and Selby*, and by them doubtfuHy 

 referred to the above-named H. ganeesa ; but Sykes, it would seem, at once 

 perceived that it did not belong to his species, and furnished those gentlemen 

 with the means of representing the real H. ganeesa. This they subsequently 

 didf, and at the same time took the opportunity of applying the epithet 

 olivacea to the subject of their former plate. 



In 1845 it appeared to BlythJ that this " H. olivacea'' required to be 

 generically distinguished from Hypsipetes ; and he accordingly proposed to 

 call it Ixocincla, remarking that " it differs from Hypsipetes in its more bulky 

 form, and more meruline bill, and in the greater size of the legs and toes, 

 but in other respects is nearly alUed." Herein few subsequent authorities, 

 so far as I am aware, followed him ; but he added, with remarkable sagacity, 

 '' Turdus borhornicus [sic], Lath., is perhaps a second species of this type." 



When the Massena collection was made ready for sale, in 1846, a 

 catalogue (somewhat elaborate for those days) of its contents was drawn up, 

 as is understood, by Jules Verreaux. Herein not only appears " Hypsipetes 

 olivacea/' but also H. ourovang^; and thus the oldest of the three forms then 

 known found its way into the genus to which the others had already been 

 referred. 



In 1855 Dr. Pucheran, fortified by Bonaparte's opinion, declared || that 

 two specimens in the Museum of Paris, which had been brought home, 

 without any indication of locality^ by Quoy and Gaimard in the ^ Uranie,' 

 and had long borne in the gallery of that building the name of Turdus 

 atricilla, conferred on them by Cuvier, but never described under it, were of 



^ lUustrations o£ Ornithology^ iii. pi. 148. f ^P- cit. iv. pi. ii. 



J. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, xiv. p. 575. 



§ Catalogue de la magnifique Collection d^Oiseaux de M. le Prince d^Essling^ Due de 

 Rivoli, p. 6. 



y Archives du Museum, vii. p. 340. 



