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Show 1868.] LIEUT.-COL. PLAYFAIR O N FISHES F R O M MADAGASCAR. 9 27. FULIGULA CRISTATA, Ray. One specimen, a young male, not different from the European bird. As mentioned above, the occurrence of this essentially continental species in the Pelew Islands is certainly a very curious fact. 28. PUFFINUS OPISTHOMELAS, Coues. The under tail-coverts are uniformly black on both webs, without the light colour of the tips. Long. tot. circa 13", alae 7" 3'", caudee 3" 2'", tars. 16'", dig. med. 16'", rostr. 12'". 29. STERNA LUNATA, Peale. 30. GYGIS ALBA (Sparrm.). Six specimens. 31. ANOUS STOLIDUS (L.). 32. PHAETON CANDIDUS, Gr. (flavirostris, Br.). 33. DYSPORUS PISCATOR (L.). 34. DYSPORUS SULA (L.). 35. CARBO MELANOLEUCUS, Gray. One adult specimen, not different from the adult Australian bird. " Eye and beak yellow ; legs black." Five nestlings. Pull. Lanugine nigricante obtectus; collo nudo nigricante; capite, gula dimidioque basali mandibulee sordide aurantiaco-brunnes-centibus ; rostro nigro. 3. O n a Collection of Fishes from Madagascar. By Lieut.- Colonel R. L. PLAYFAIR, F.Z.S., H.B.M. Consul-Ge-neral in Algeria. I have lately received from my friend M. Alfred Grandidier a collection of Fishes made by him in Madagascar, with a request that I would send them, after identification, to the Museum of Natural History at Paris. M. Grandidier is well known in France as an intelligent and adventurous oriental traveller. For the last three years he has been travelling amongst the islands on the east coast of Africa, particularly in Madagascar ; and after a hurried visit to his native country, he has returned to complete his explorations in that interesting island. In forwarding these fishes to me he states, "Of the four dried skins, I caught the two largest (Lethrinus ramak and Otolithus argenteus) in the sea at Cape St. Mary; the two smaller ones (Mugil smithii and Chromis niloticus) were found in a river at Pointe a, Larree, |