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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
Second Series, OctoBER to DECEMBER 1833, ] 
SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTION. 
6ih Nov. The Secretary reported that the Rev. Dr. Philip 
had presented two interesting Zoological Specimens for the 
Society's Museum,—the one Manis Temmuinckii, the other 
Python Natalensis; and that both of them had been brought 
from the interior, eastward of Latakoo. The latter, Dr. Smith 
stated, was also found in the country about Port Natal; and 
that he had in his possession a specimen which was killed by 
his party whilst he was there. 
At the request of Mr. Verreaux, the attention of the meeting 
was called to three birds which he had lately received from 
Madagascar, and which, from considering them new to science, 
he had named and characterised as follows :— 
Accipiter Madagascariensis. Above dull brown with an ir- 
regular white spot on the nape; beneath white freely crossed 
with fine brown bars : vent and under tail coverts, pure white ; 
tail brown above, ashy white beneath, and both surfaces 
crossed by eight narrow brown-black bands. Length thir- 
teen inches and a half.* 
Glareola ocularis. Head and shoulders green-black ; under 
each eye a fine transverse white stripe ; upper parts of neck and 
back green-grey ; chin white; under parts of neck and the 
breast brownish grey; anterior part of belly pale chesnut; 
hinder parts, and under and upper tail coverts white ; base of 
tail partly black and partly white, the tips of a few of the 
feathers white, the other parts pure black; bill black with the 
edges of the mandibles towards the angles of the mouth, red. 
Length about eight inches and a half. 
Rallus Madagascariensis. Head and chin grey ; neck, breast 
and belly rusty grey-brown; back rusty olive blotched with 
black ; vent barred transversly with reddish white ; under tail 
coverts white ; point of bill and upper surface of upper mandi- 
ble blackish brown, the other parts of the bill yellowish. 
Length eight inches and a half. 
* Can this be the Astur fasciatus of Vigors end Horsfield? Ed. 
