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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



Second Series, OCTOBER to DECEMBER 1833.] 



SOUTH AFKICAN INSTITUTION. 



6th Nov. The Secretary reported that the Eev. Dr. Philip 

 had presented two interesting Zoological Specimens for the 

 Society's Museum, the one Manis Temmmckii, 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. Yerreaux, 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 and Horsfield ? Ed. 



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