6S2 SOME XEJT BIIiDS FROM MADAGASCAB—RICHMOXD. vol. xix. 



intercepting the white. Three outer tail feathers white, with more or 

 less dusky markings, especially on the two inner ones; next inner pair 

 (fourth) dusky, with white tips; lilth pair hair brown, becoming black 

 subterminally, with a deep buff tip. Bill, legs, and feet black in dried 

 skin. Wing,'! inches: tail. 1.72; tarsus, 1.20; exposed culmen, 0.<;i>. 

 In another female the wing measures 4.20 inches. 



This species is apparently nu)st nearly related to J^. raria of Africa 

 and ^Madagascar, bnt differs from it mainly in the i)i('sence of a black 

 pectoral band and the absence of a wholly black sliait in the third 

 primary; the white line posterior to the black crescent between eyes is 

 more pronounced, and the lesser wing coverts and primary coverts 

 are not decidedly blackish. There is also a slight dil'l'erence in size. 

 JE. thoracicahuB heretofore been ideutilied with ^I'J.variahy the French 

 authors, the explanation being that the adults have a black chest band 

 not i)resent in the younger birds, bnt it is also admitted that black- 

 chested bii'ds have not been found in Africa. Both species are appar- 

 ently found together on the east coast of Madagascar, where, at 

 Loholoka, on June 3, Doctor Abbott obtained a specimen of each. 



Family JACANID.^. 



23. PHYLLOPEZUS ALBINUCA (St. Hilaire). 



/'[«>•/•((] alhiniica, St. Hilaikk, Mag. Zool., 1832, ])1. vi. (Madairascar.) 

 [I'lniUopczun'] (ilbiniicha, Shelley, Birds Africa, 1896, p. 187. 



Three specimens. Male adult, Mahanoro, April 20. Female adult, 

 same locality and date. Two specimens. 



Family PHASIANID^. 



24. MARGAROPERDIX MADAGARENSIS i Scopoli). 



Tetrao (madaf/aroisis), Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faiin. lusiibr , I't. 2, 178(5, p. 93. 



[Madaga.scar.] 

 Mar(i<iroperdix maduijuxcaricnsis, Harteut, Kat. Mus. Seui-keub., 1891, ]>. 19.">. 



Two specimens. Male adult, Andrangolsaka, Imerina, March 28. 

 IMale adult, 30 miles northwest of Mahanoro, April 18. "Length, 10^ 

 inches." 



25. NUMIDA MITRATA. Pallas. 



Xumida mitraia, Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, I't. 4, 17G7, p. 18. 



One specimen. Male adult, Mahanoro, May 30. 



Family TUENICID.E. 



26. TURNIX NIGRICOLLIS (Gmelin). 



{Tiirao'] nif/ricoUis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Tt. 2, 1788, p. 767. (Madagascar.) 

 Turnix niiiricollin. ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet., XXXV, 1819, p. 45. 



I'our specimens. Male adult, Andrangolsaka, Imerina, ^March 27. 

 Female adult, Mahanoro, May 1, 2. Two specimens, Fenmle adult, 

 Masomeloka, east coast. May 9. 



