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Characters and Geographical Distribution. The same as those of the Family. 
1. Mesites variegata Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Plate, Fig. 1-7). Madagascar. 
Mesites variegata Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sc. Paris, Vol. 6, 
p. 440 (1838). 
Mesites unicolor Des Murs, Rev. Zool. Vol. 8, p. 176 (1845). 
Mesenas variegata Reichenbach, Naturgesch. Tauben, p. 6 (1862). 
Meswnas unicolor Reichenbach, Naturgesch, Tauben, p. 7 (1862). 
Mesites variegata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 23, p. 244 (1894). 
Mesceenas variegata Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, Vol. 1, p. 180 (1899). 
Mesites variegata Reichenow, Die Vogel, Vol. 1, p. 222 (1913). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 
Fig. 1. Mesites variegata ot. 
— 2, — = (the head, natural size). 
ey nie: = ©, 
ee —— == (the wing). 
— 535, — = (the tail). 
— 6, — — (the left foot). 
— 7. a = (the bill, from above). 
(From Milne-Edwards & Grandidier’s Histoire Naturelle de Madagascar). 
(On the Plate, for Meswnatide, Mesa@nas, read Mesitide, Mesites). 
Caen, 16th June r9r4. 
