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CHEMSCUS MADAGASCARIENSIS. 



Tier. — Dorso colloquy macula viridi ; subtus albus. 



MADAGASCAR BERN I CLE. 

 jBer. with the back and neck with a patch of green ; below white. 



IN. IN. 



Length U^ Middle toe 7-12ths 



Bill | 



Male : occiput, a stripe clown the back of the neck ; scapulars and rump green, with purplish 

 inflections ; quills and primary coverts sooty black, the latter edged with white ; upper part of tbe 

 breast, tail coverts, and flanks, reddish yellow ; lower part of the breast, belly, forehead, chin, 

 cheeks, and front of the neck, white; an ovate patch on each side of the neck, ligbt green, with a 

 black edge irrorated with white ; under tail coverts black ; bill gamboge yellow ; nail, legs, and 

 feet, black. 



Fern. : as in the male, but without the green marking on the neck, instead of which it is grey ; 

 the forehead is also grey ; in other respects similar. 



Anas Madagascar icns'is Gmel. S//s. .Vu/. I. 522. 



Lath. Ind. Om. 2. 875. 



Madagascar Teal Lath. Gen. S?/n. G. 556. 



Sarcelle de Madagascar Buff. PL Enl. 770. 



Inhabits Madagascar. Specimens are in the British Museum, and in that of the Zoological 

 Society. Mr. Leadbeater also possesses two most beautiful specimens. We have also been so 

 fortunate as to obtain a specimen of the female. 



