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A figure of an adult specimen of the Madagascar race, 

 brought from that island by Captain Milius, -will be found 

 in Temminch's "Planches Coloriees/' pi. 307. 



It may be worth mentioning that the specimen No. 7 on 

 the following list exhibits the curious lusus of one of the 

 feathers on the nape of the neck being marked on one side of 

 the shaft with transverse bai'S of black and white of a character 

 similar to those on the feathers of the abdomen. 



SPECIMENS OF POLYBOROIDES RADIATUS* 



No. 1. 5 adult... Natal (G) Mr. Ayres. 



No. 2. ? adult... Do (G) Do. 



No. 3. J adult... Do (G) Do. 



No. 4. S adult... Do (G) Do. 



No. 5. ? adult... Do (G) Do. 



(The sexes of the above five specimens were ascertained by Mr. Ayres on dissection.) 



No. 6. immature in change ... Natal (G) Mr. Ayres. 



No. 7. adult... Ibadan, Western Africa ... (G) Mrs. Hinderer. 



No. 8. adult... Do (G) Do. 



No. 9. adult... Bissao, Western Africa ... (G) Mr. Verreaux. 



No. 10. adult... Do (G) Do. 



No. 11. immature Do (G) Do. 



No. 12. 5 adult... Nubia (G) Do. 



(The last-named specimen is the type of Mr. Verreaux's suggested species 

 " Gymnogenys Malzacii," described in the Eevue de Zoologie for 1855.) 



