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Madagascar; E. Newton, Ibis, 1867, p. 342, Seychelles; 

 Hartl. Vog. Madag. 1877, p. 404. 



Turtur malaccensis, Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. 1868, 

 p. 155. 



Forehead, front half of the crown, sides of the head, and 

 upper half of the throat very pale grey ; remainder of the 

 crown pale brown of a slightly vinous shade ; back of the 

 neck, back, upper tail-coverts, upper wing-coverts, and inner- 

 most secondaries pale brown, each feather tipped with black ; 

 bastard wing, primary -coverts, and the remainder of the quills 

 darker brown, the primaries with the basal portion of their 

 inner webs rufous ; tail of 12 feathers, two centre feathers 

 slaty brown, the remainder black, the six outer ones with 

 broad white ends, which extend obliquely down portions of 

 their outer webs ; centre of the lower throat and chest vinous 

 pink, fading into pinkish white down the centre of the lower 

 breast and on the under tail-coverts ; feathers of the sides of 

 the neck and sides of the body with narrow alternate bars of 

 black and white, the white becoming shaded with vinous on 

 the flanks ; under surface of the wing dark brown ; the 

 coverts somewhat indistinctly barred Avith rufous and brownish 

 black, a large portion of the inner webs of the quills rufous ; 

 the first primary is much sulcated, for the end 0*6 is not 

 broader than the outer web of the second quill ; iris brown ; 

 bill dusky slate-colour; legs red. Total length 9*2 inches, 

 culmen 0*5, wing 4, tail 4'4, tarsus 0*7. 



Hab. China, Australia, New Guinea, and the Malay archi- 

 pelago, and, as an introduced bird, Seychelles, Madagascar, 

 Mauritius, Round Island, Reunion, and St. Helena. 



My description is taken from a specimen collected by 

 myself at St. Helena. 



XXIX. — On the Variations in Plumage of Saxicola monti- 

 cola, as observed in Natal. By Majors E. A. Butlek and 

 H. W. Feilden and Capt. S. G. Reid. 



During our stay at Newcastle, in the upper district of Natal, 

 SER. V. VOL. I. 2 a 



