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Show 64 MR. E. BARTLETT ON MAMMALS [Feb. 2, very pale grey, others of a reddish brown, with the spots less distinct. The colours evidently depend upon the age, because the old female (that was suckling the young at the time she was killed) is much larger and paler in colour than the rest. Called by the natives of the S.E. coast "Alungar." 17. G A L I D I A E L E G A N S , Geoffr. S.E. coast of Madagascar. A female and a young one about half-grown are in the present collection. The colours of the young are exactly the same as in the adult. 18. ERICULUS NIGRICANS. Tamatave. 19. CENTETES ECAUDATUS, Illiger. One pale-coloured specimen in a former collection from Mauritius, and several reddish-brown specimens from the S.E. coast of Madagascar. 20. POTAMOCHGERUS EDWARDSI. (Plate XII.) Potamochcerus edwardsi, Grand. Rev. Zool. 1867, p. 318; Gray, Ann. N. II. ser. 4, vol. xv. p. 47 (1875). Potamochcerus africanus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 206. Sanylier de Madagascar, Daubenton ; Buffon, N. H. xiv. p. 396 ; Flacourt's Hist. Madagascar, p. 151. Potamochcerus , Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 38. Potamochcerus madagascariensis, Gray, Cat. M a m m . B.M. p. 344 (1869). Mr. Waters, in a note to me, says : - " I send the skin and skull of a small species of Wild Boar found on the lowlands, and called " Lamboneive," differing from the upland Wild Boar, which is much larger and called " Lambohava." The skin and skull now exhibited appear to be referable to the adult of the same animal as that which Dr. Gray described (/. s. c.) as the young of P. africanus, from a specimen received through me from the same collector. Mr. Smit's drawing (Plate XII.) is taken from the skin now exhibited. BIRDS. 1. B U T E O B R A C H Y P T E R U S , Pelz. S.E. coast of Madagascar. A young female is in the present collection. 2. TINNUNCULUS NEWTONI, Gum. Andradia, Madagascar. Specimens were in a former collection. 3. POLYBOROIDES RADIATUS, Scop. East of Tamatave. An adult female from this locality in a former collection, an adult |