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Show 422 DR. SCHLEGEL ON NEWANIMALS FROM MADAGASCAR. [Nov. 22, EROESSA TENELLA, Hartlaub=Damia pusilla, Pollen, in lifteris. Form of bill somewhat like Zosterops; but wings rounded, the fourth quill being the longest. Small; wing 20 lines. Upper part vel-lowish green, but the neck greyish ; throat and breast yellow. North-west and north-east coasts of Madagascar. C O P S Y C H U S PICA. Madagascar. Females very rare. S A X I C O L A R U B I C O L A . AS mentioned many years ago, it is quite impossible to find out constant differences between Motacilla rubicola, Linne, from Europe, M. sybilla, Linne, from Madagascar, Saxicola pastor from South Africa, & hemprichii from North Africa, Motacilla maura, Pallas, from Siberia, and Pratincola indica, Blyth, from India. All the Madagascar specimens belong to one species. The colouring (white and dark) of the rump is individual. Those from Bourbon differ more conspicuously than those from any other country, their throat remaining of a pure white when the rest of the head has already taken the black colour. W e hope to be able, in our work, to decide the question whether the Bourbon specimens should stand as a proper conspecies under the epithet of borbonica, already given to this bird by Bory de St. Vincent. N E W T O N I A B R U N N E I C A U D A , Pollen. Erythrosterna(l) brunnei-cauda, Newton. North-west and north-east coasts of Madagascar. G E R V A I S I A ALBISPECULARIS. North-eastern coast of Madagascar, collected by Lantz and Grandidier. The genus Gervaisia will hardly stand. Z O S T E R O P S MADAGASCARIENSIS. North-west coast of Madagascar. Z O S T E R O P S B O R B O N I C A . Certhia borbonica, Gmelin. Reunion. Not observed in Madagascar. Z O S T E R O P S HJESITATA, Hartlaub. Not different from Certhia olivacea, Linne. Reunion ; not found in Madagascar. Z O S T E R O P S C H L O R O N O T U S . Appears to be found only in Mauritius. Z O S T E R O P S MAYOTTENSIS, Pollen = Zosterops flavifrons, Pollen. See Schlegel, Contrib. I. c. Only in Mayotte. P H I L E P I T T A S C H L E G E L I , Pollen. The adults with the whole eye surrounded by large fleshy blue and green lobes; under parts and fore part of the back yellow ; head black; the other upper parts yellowish green. Young without lobes. P H I L E P I T T A JALA. Observed by Messrs. Lantz and Grandidier on the eastern coast of Madagascar. The males proved to be the Philepitta sericea, Geoffroy, Merula madagascariensis aurea, Bris-son, Phyllornis jala, auct. ex Boddaert, Turdus nigerrimus, Gmelin, Brissonia nigerrima, Hartlaub ; the females and young birds Philepitta geoffroyi, Desm. et Fl. Prevost. H Y P S I P E T E S M A D A G A S C A R I E N S I S . Merula madagascariensis ci-nerea, Brisson ; Turdus ourovang, Gmelin; Hypsipetes ourovany, Hartlaub. Madagascar and Mayotte. Feet and eyes brown. |