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SOME NEW BIEDS FROM MADAGASCAR— EICHMOXD. 



Family LARIDiE. 



2. ? STERNA MEDIA, Horsfield. 



Sterna media, Hokskield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIII, 1820, p. 199. (Java.) 



One specimen. Male adult, Kiver Sakales, east coast, jNIay J.">. This 

 is the same as the species recently recorded by Mr. llidgway from 

 Gloriosa Island.' 



Family PROCELLARIID.E. 



3. DAPTION CAPENSIS (Linnaeus). 



\^Procellaria'\ capensii*, LixxvEUS, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1, 1758, p. 132. (Cape of 



Good Hope.) 

 Daption capenses, Stephkxs, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII, Pt. 1, 1825, p. 241. 

 One specimen. Female adult, Mananjara, east coast, June 29. 



Family A:N"ATID.F. 



4. PiECILONITTA ERYTHRORHYNCHA (Gmelin). 



lAnas'l (riilhrorlnpieha, Gmelix, Syst. Nat., I, l't.2, 1788,p. 517. (Cape of 



Good Hope.) 

 PacilonUta erythrorhijncha, Eytox, Monogr. Anat., 1838, p. 115. 



Four specimens. Male adult, Namorona, east coast, June 3, Female 

 adult, Xamorona, June 3. ]\Iale adult, Faraony River, east coast, June 

 C. Female adult, Namorona River, east coast, June 25. 



5. THALASSORNIS INSULARIS, new species. 



Type. — Xo. 151139, U.S.N.M.; male adult, River Sakales, east coast 

 of jMadagascar, May 15, 1895; collected by Doctor W. L. Abbott. 



Similar to TJialtissoynis /f?^fOMo/f(, of Africa, but much smaller; crown 

 more intense black ; abdomen darker ; tail feathers darker and decidedly 

 narrower; black markings everywhere more intense; buff color of sides 

 of head, neck, and breast paler and grayer. The following measure- 

 ments of a pair, obtained ^lay 15, compared with a pair of T. Inwonoia 

 collected by Doctor Abbott in Africa, May 10, 1889, will emphasize tlie 

 dift'erences in size: 



Measurements of Thalassornls insularis and T. Ituconota. 



The name Anas hrevipennis, of'Lichtenstein, may possibly refer to this 

 species, but 1 am not aware that any description was ever published. 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, No. 1079, p. 524. 



