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ritius and Madagascar. The following thirty-six species are 

 enumerated by M. Maillard as being found in the island. 



Falco radama? 

 Circus maillardi. 

 Poliopsitta cana. 

 Coracopsis vaza. 

 Collocalia esculenta. 

 Phedina borbonica. 

 Fregilupus capensis. 

 Acridotheres tristis. 

 Muscipeta borbonica. 

 Hypsipetes olivaceus. 

 Oxynotus ferrugineus. 

 Pratincola sibylla. 

 Zosterops borbonica. 



hsesitata. 



Munia orj'zivora. 

 Maja punctularia. 

 Estrelda astrild. 

 amandava. 



Foudia madagascariensis. 

 Chlorospiza chloris. 

 Passer domesticus. 

 Serinus icterus. 

 Columba schimperi. 

 Turtur picturatus. 

 Geopelia striata. 

 Margaroperdix striata. 

 Excalfactoria chinensis. 

 Francolinus perlatus. 

 Herodias calceolata. 

 Gallinula chloropus. 

 Pterodroma aterrima. 

 Puffinus obscurus. 

 Anoiis tenuirostris. 

 Phaethon candidus. 

 Numenius phaeopus. 

 Pelidna cinclus. 



Some of them, if correctly determined, are, of course, intro- 

 duced species; and it would have been very interesting if M. 

 Maillard had given us details of the manner and date of their 

 importation into the island. An appendix to the work contains 

 some valuable criticisms on the list, from the pen of M. Jules 

 Verreaux, to which we invite the attention of those who are 

 interested in the natural history of these regions. 



3. Dutch Publications. 

 The fifth volume of the 'Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo- 

 Neerlandicje ' (which, though bearing on its title-page the date 

 1858-59, has, we believe, been only recently received in Europe) 

 contains an article by Mr. von Rosenberg, on the distribution 

 of £ome of the characteristic groups of birds of those regions *. 

 Mr. V. Rosenberg's tables include the genera Eurylaimus, Pitta, 

 Melliphaga, Nectarinia, Merops, Buceros, Alcedo, and Bucco, and 

 are intended to show the extent of the prevalence of these forms 



* Overzigtstabellen voor de Ornithologie van den Indischen Archipel, and 

 Verbeteringen en Bijvoegsels tot de Overzigtstabellen voor de Ornithologie 

 van den Indischen Archipel. Act. Soc. Indo-Neerl. vol. v. 



