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Show 296 MR. E. NEWTON ON THE BIRDS OF ANJUAN. [Mar. 20, of twenty-three species of birds, chiefly collected by Drs. Kirk Dickinson, as occurring in one or other of them. Since that time about fifteen more have been added to our knowledge by the Dutch naturalists and travellers M M . Pollen and Van Dam. The present collection contains twenty-seven species, of which nineteen have been before known to occur in the group, and eight are new to the fauna, including five which have not hitherto been described. The total number of the species of the Comoro Islands is therefore now raised to forty-six ; of these, three (or perhaps four) appear to me likely to have been introduced. Of the new species the most interesting is a true Turdus, no bird of this genus having been previously discovered in any of the Mascarene Islands or in Madagascar itself. Several of the other species are so nearly identical with those found in Madagascar that I have not ventured to describe them as distinct; yet they have well-marked features which make them easily recognizable from the former, either by length of feather, general colour, or size of beak. 1. ACCIPITER PUSILLUS. Scelospizias pusillus, Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 358. Accipiterfrancesi, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 298, pl. vii. (nee A. Smith). Nisus francesii (pt.), Schlegel & Pollen, Rech. Madag. p. 36. Three specimens, one male and two females. "Only saw two pair; found one egg in a female, sent herewith. Iris yellow or orange, beak bluish grey, legs and feet light yellow." Native name " Shimpangar." I have already a specimen of this species, apparently a male, which was given to me by Dr. Playfair, R.N., of H.M.S. 'Orestes,' having been shot at Pomony, Anjuan, November 16th, 1863. 2. MlLVUS ^EGYPTIUS. Milvus eegyptius, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 298 ; Schlegel & Pollen, Rech. Madag. p. 44. Five specimens. " Very common." Native name " Coosee." 3. ALUCO FLAMMEUS. Three specimens. "Three onlv seen and shot." Native name "Boondee." 4. CORACOPSIS COMORENSIS. Coracopsis comorensis, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 1854, p. 371 ; Hartl. Madag. p. 59 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 300. Three specimens. "Very common in high forests, where it lives on tops of trees." 5. CORACOPSIS BARKLYI. Coracopsis barklyi, E. Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 346, • pl. xxii.; Ibis, 1867, p. 341. One specimen. "The only one I saw." This bird appears to me to be identical with C. barklyi, which has hitherto been found in the Seychelles group only. As the'Parrots |