Mr. W. H. Simpson's Fortnight m the Dohrudscha. 361 



Ornith. Madag. p. 40. Malacirops borbonica, Bonap. Notes s. 1. 

 Coll. Del. p. 56; Reicheub. fig. 3290. Fiyuier de VIsle de France, 

 BufF. [Motacilla mauritiana, Gra. ?). Z. cinerea, Swains.? 



Found in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. A speci- 

 men received from Goudot in the Paris collection is a little more 

 brownish ; perhaps a female. 



c. Speirops. 

 11. Z. LUGUBRis, Hartl. 



Supra olivacea, pileo nigricante, uropygio viridi-flavescente ; 

 fasciola inter rictum et oculum annuloque periophthalmico, 

 hoc minus conspicue, albis ; subalaribus et flexura alae pure 

 albis ; gutture pallide cinerascente ; pectore et abdomine 

 dilute brunnescenti-olivaceis ; rostro brunneo ; pedibus 

 carneis ; iride nigra. 

 Long. 5" 2'"; rostr. a fr. 4|"; al.2"8|"'; caud. 2"; tars. Sf. 



Syn. Zosterops lugubi-is, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 108; Id. 

 Beitr. z. Orn. Westafr. p. 49 ; Id. xibhandl. Naturw. Ver. Hamb. 

 ii. p. 49, t. 2. fig. med. ; Id. Syst. Orn. Westafr. p. 72. Speirops 

 higubris, lleichenb. Merop. p. 93, fig. 3306. 



Confined to the Island of St. Thomas. We have examined 

 two specimens (Hamb. Mus.). 



Less typical. The largest Zosteropine species of Africa. 



XLI. — A Fortnight in the Dobrudscha. 

 By W. H. Simpson, M.A., F.Z.S. 

 The Austrian steamer from Constantinople to Galatz being 

 caught in a gale of wind off Varna, on Sunday, April 15, 1860, 

 was obliged to run for shelter behind the point of Kali Akra, 

 the eastern horn of Baltschik Bay, where she lay for thirty-six 

 hours, secure from the furious nor^-easter, which drove the scud 

 at hurricane speed just over the 300 feet cliffs that protected us 

 from its fury. This is the first view which the traveller from 

 the south has of the coast of the Dobrudscha, and if he has pre- 

 viously indulged in the popular error that that region is a low- 

 lying swamp, he will here have an opportunity for correcting his 

 geography. But unless he wishes to find himself alone in the 

 midst of a somewhat lawless Turkish population, he will hardly 

 care to land here in order to improve his ornithology, though 

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