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Show 772 ON MAMMALS AND BIRDS FROM MADAGASCAR. [Dec. 16, 13. FUNINGUS MADAGASCARIENSIS, L. S.E. Madagascar. Called by the natives " Firniga-muigu." 14. CENA CAPENSIS, L. S.E. coast of Madagascar. 15. MESITES VARIEGATUS, Geoffr. S.E. coast of Madagascar. See remarks on the affinities of this genus, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 291. 16. ANASTOMUS LAMELLIGERUS, Temm. S.W. coast of Madagascar. 17. GALLINAGO BERNIERI, Puch. S.E. Betsileo, Madagascar. Male, female, and eggs are in the collection. Egg pale brown, spotted and blotched with various tints of dark brown, principally at the large end, about the same size as the egg of Gallinago major. 18. BlENSIS MADAGASCARIENSIS, Ven*. S.E. Betsileo, Madagascar. Male and female of this interesting Rail are in the collection. This bird appears to me to belong to the genus Rallus ; it resembles closely R. aquaticus and its allies. 19. ZAPORNIA PYGMCEA, Naum. Zapornia baillonii, V. S.E. Betsileo, Madagascar. Specimens of this species, with the eggs, are in the collection. 20. ZAPORNIA WATERSI, sp. nov. (Plate LXIII.) S.E. Betsileo, Madagascar. 6* • Beak dark brown; top of head, neck, throat, and breast chestnut-brown, darker on top of the head, paler on tbe chin ; centre of back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts dark brown, each feather having an elongated black centre; primaries and secondaries dusky brown ; upper tail-coverts, tail, and under tail-coverts dark chestnut-brown, tipped with black ; belly, thighs, and vent dark slaty brown; legs, toes, and claws pale brown. Length 5\ inches, wing 2f. 2 . Beak dark brown; crown of head and neck dark brown, tinged with rufous, with very pale indistinct bars near the tips of each feather; back, scapulars, tertials, and upper wing-coverts dark brown, the centre of each feather blackish, with from four to six whitish spots and bars on the outer edges of the webs of each feather ; primaries dusky black, with two or three very indistinct whitish spots on the outer web of the first and second quill-feathers; upper tail-coverts, tail, and lower tail-coverts chestnut-brown, barred with black |