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Show 1877.] MR. E. NEWTON ON THE BIRDS OF ANJUAN. 297 of this subregion are extremely local, I am led to the belief bird must have been introduced into Anjuan from the Seychelles, where it is not unfrequently kept as a cage-bird; and as I know several of the Creoles of the Seychelles are employed in Anjuan, it is likely that it may have been brought over from there, escaped, and been shot by Mr. Bewsher. It was the only one he saw. The wing-feathers are much broken at the extremities, as if the bird had been kept in confinement. 6. CORYTHORNIS VINTSIOIDES. Six specimens. " Most common on streams near the sea." Native name " Mouam Moran." The specimens of this species are almost identical with those from Madagascar; but the blue on the back and rump in the former is lighter than in the latter. 7. M E R O P S SUPERCILIOSUS. Six specimens. " Not common; seen chiefly in small trees, on bare twigs, near the shore ; crop full of black mason flies; generally in small flocks of six or eight." Native name " Cimbangooiee." This bird is so nearly identical with specimens from Madagascar that I have not thought proper to describe it as a distinct species ; but all the specimens from Anjuan have the crown of the head less brown and the middle tail-feathers less elongated than those from Madagascar. 8. NECTARINIA COMORENSIS. Nectarinia comorensis, Peters, Ibis, 1864, p. 299. Six specimens. "Very common." Native name " Shetozee." The nest is similar to those of others of the genus. The egg is greyish white, spotted and blotched, especially at the larger end, with ashy brown. 9. ZOSTEROPS ANJUANENSIS, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1.) Zosterops Z. poliogastrae (Heuglin, Ibis, 1861, p. 357, pl. xiii.) simillima, sed sine lined flavd postoculari, epigastrio obsolete cinereo, abdomine albo. Long, tota 4*3, alae 2*2, caudae 1*6, acrotarsi *7, dig. med. sine ungue *35, hallucis sine ungue *27, maxillae a fronte *45, mandibulae ab articulo 1*1 poll. Angl. Five specimens, four male and one female. "Nest and eggs sent; sits very close; not very common." Native name " Nean Teughnan." This handsome species most nearly resembles Z. poliogastra of Von Heuglin, from Abyssinia. There is, however, a spot of yellow on the lores instead of a streak of yellow extending over the eyes; the yellow on the throat extends somewhat lower down than in Z. poliogastra ; the chest only is grey, while the belly is of a dirty white, instead of both being grey as in the African species. The nest and one egg sent resemble those of all the others of the genus with which I am acquainted. 10. DICRURUS FORFICATUS. Dicrurus forficatus, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 299. Eight specimens. "A very sharp, clever bird, the only bird |