452 Mr. E. Newton's Second Visit to Madagascar. 



ing of the Zoological Society of London held on the 12th May 

 last, and proposed to call it after the name of its discoverer. 



Through Mr. Salvin's kindness, I have now the pleasure of 

 giving a figure (Plate XII.) of this species, taken from the typical 

 specimen^ which will render it easily recognizable. Calliste 

 dowii is allied, as Mr. Salvin has stated, to C. nigriviridis of New 

 Granada, but separated from it by very trenchant characters, 

 such as the rufous belly, black throat, &c., which render it 

 easily recognizable on comparison. Mr. Salvin states that it 

 was " probably obtained from the low forest-region of the 

 Atlantic slope of Costa Rica.^^ 



5. Calliste hartlaubi. Dacnis hartlauhi, Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1854, p. 251; Callispiza hartlaubi, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, 

 p. 88, from New Granada, allied to C. labradorides. 



I have already confessed the error of which I was guilty in 

 classifying this bird as a Dacnis (see antea, p. 312), and Dr. Ca- 

 banis has pointed out the same in his ' Journal f. Ornithologie,' 

 /. c. The only examples yet recognized of this species appear to be 

 those in the Bremen and Berlin collections. 



XXXIX. — Notes of a Second Visit to Madagascar. 

 By Edward Newton, M.A., C.M.Z.S. 

 (Plate XIII.) 

 [Continued from page 350.] 



45. Coracopsis nigra (Linnseus). 

 " Buoaz.^' 



I believe I saw several of this species at Chasmanna, but did 

 not obtain a specimen ; they were chasing one another about the 

 tops of the tallest trees, at least one hundred feet in height. A 

 good many were for sale at Tamatave when we first arrived. I 

 did not meet with the larger species, C. vasa. 



46. Poliopsitta cana (Gmelin). 



Vast numbers are brought over yearly to Mauritius. 



47. Centropus tolu (Linnseus). 

 " Tooloo." 



More abundant in the neighbourhood of Tamatave and Foule 



