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26. ROSTRATULA BENGALENSIS MADAGASCARIENSIS (Boddaert). 



Two specimens, cf and 9 , Maevatanana, September 9. 



The Madagascan form of the Painted Snipe is probably a good 

 subspecies. Our two specimens, compared with African birds, are 

 darker and more greyish. 



Parridae. 



27. Phyllopezus albinucha (Geoff roy St. Hilaire). 



Fourteen specimens, both sexes, young and adults, Tulear, 

 Berevo, Upper Siribihina River, Maevatanana, Miandrivazo, and 

 southern end of Lake Alaotra, June, July, and September. 



Cursoriidae. 

 28. Galactochrysea ocularis (Verreaux). 

 One adult 9 , Maevatanana, September 11. 



Family ? 

 29. MoNiAS BENSCHi Oustalct and Grandidier. 



Four adults, three males and a female, twenty kilometers northeast 

 of Tulear, and Tulear, xVugust. 



Both the original describers and Hartert (Nov. zool., 1912, 19, p. 

 373, pi. 1) suggest affinities to the Rallidae for this extraordinary 

 species, whose systematic position is still unknown. The bird has 

 powder-down patches somewhat different in detail, but on the whole 

 not unlike those of Mesites.^ Possibly the relationship of these two 

 remarkable Madagascan types is not so very remote. 



Ibididae. 

 30. Treskiornis bernieri Bonaparte. 

 Two adult males, thirty miles south of Berevo, July 14. 



' Dr. C. W. Richmond has soino doubt as to the preoccupation of Mesites, but if preoccupied 

 Mesitornis Bonaparte 1855, and not Mesoenas Reichenbach 1861 must be used. 



