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Show 1866.] DR. SCHLEGEL ON NEW ANIMALS FROM MADAGASCAR. 423 HYPSIPETES BORBONICA. Merula borbonica, Brisson. Reunion. Feet orange ; eyes white. TSCHITR^A BORBONICA. Only from Bourbon and from Mauritius ; not in Madagascar and Mayotte. Underparts grey; upper parts red brown ; head black. Never attains long tail-feathers, and never becomes white and black. TSCHITR^EA MUTATA. Madagascar and Mayotte. CEBLEPYRIS CANA. North-eastern and north-western coasts of Madagascar. O X Y N O T U S FERRUGINEUS, from Mauritius, and O X Y N O T U S NEW-TONI, from Reunion. See Pollen, Ibis, 1866, p. 275. A R T A M I A LEUCOCEPHALA. North-western coast of Madagascar. A R T A M I A (LEPTOPTERUS) VIRIDIS. North-western and eastern coasts. A R T A M I A BICOLOR. Cyanolanius bicolor, Bonaparte. Northwestern coast. DICRURUS FORFICATUS. North-western and eastern coasts. DICRURUS WALDENT, Schlegel, Contr. in Tydschrift, I. c. Mayotte. An Indian form. Dr. Kirk (see Dr. Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 299) mentions D. forficatus as inhabiting Anjouan. We should not wonder if the Anjouan bird, when closely examined, turns out to be D. waldeni. CALICALICUS MADAGASCARIENSIS. North-western and northeastern coasts. V A N G A CURVIROSTRIS. North-western and north-eastern coasts. V A N G A DAMII. Xenopirostris damii, Pollen; Schleg. Contrib. Tydschrift, I. c. North-eastern coast. CORVUS SCAPULATUS. Corvus madagascariensis, Bonaparte. Madagascar and Mayotte. PASTOR TRISTIS. Introduced in Reunion and Mauritius, also on the eastern coast of Madagascar (E. Newton). HARTLAUBIA MADAGASCARIENSIS, Bonaparte. North-western coast. PLOCEUS PENSILIS. North-western coast. Note that Ploceus sakalava, Hartlaub, certainly does not come from Madagascar, and that the name of Soui-di-Seye given to this bird should be Foudice, which is the Sakkalava name of Ploceus pensilis. PLOCEUS ALGOND^E, Pollen. A beautiful new species from Mayotte. Larger than P. madagascariensis, and bill longer; head, breast, and upper tail-coverts orange; rest of the underparts olivaceous grey washed with yellow ; back olivaceous. PLOCEUS MADAGASCARIENSIS. Loxia madagascariensis, Linne. In Madagascar in the wild state. Introduced into Bourbon and Mauritius. |
