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12. Eurystomus madagascariemis 'Linuaeus). 

 " A'oronkark." 



I saw one example at Chasmanna. Though we passed over 

 the same route as Dr. Koch did last year^ between Tamatave and 

 Foule Pointy and where he found this species so plentiful, we 

 did not observe it. We were \qx\ nearly two months earlier ; 

 and perhaps the bird in those parts is migratory. 



13. Brachypteracias leptosomus (Lesson). 



A specimen was obtained by Captain Anson near Ampasimbe 



on his return from Antananarivo. 



1-4. Atelornis pittoides, Lafresnaye. 



Obtained by Captain Anson and Mr. Caldwell in the forest 

 of Alanamasaotra — the only locality in which I have vet heard 

 of it. 



15. Corythornis vintsioides, Lafresnaye. 



'' Yinshi." 



As common as it was last year. 



16. Merops snperciliosus, Linnaeus. 



"Kirio kirio^' (so called from its en,-;. 



To be seen hawking about the Hivondrcna river almost daily. 

 On the Fangandrafrahj a tributary- of the Hivondrcna, I dug 

 out a female Bee- eater from a hole in the bank of the river, 

 about three feet in length ; the nest was not yet made, and the 

 bird's beak was covered with soil, showing that she was still 

 working at the excavation. All the specimens, of both sexes, 

 that we obtained were bare of feathers on their breasts and 

 thighs, as if incubating. That they had not all done so, was 

 evident from the nest of the one I have mentioned not bein^r 

 tinishedj yet it and its mate were both as naked as the others. 

 Is this a peculiarity of the genus ? In both sexes, iris red, beak 

 black, less brown. 



in Mauritius, but it is certainly much rarer; for at the locality- in the« 

 district of Savanne where I have observed it to be most plentiful I re- 

 mained for ten days, in June lS6i?, and never observed more than three at 

 once, and as they were always at the same place, they might have been the 

 same individuals. 



