296 MR. E. NEWTON ON THE BIRDS OF ANJUAN. [ Mar. 20, 
of twenty-three species of birds, chiefly collected by Drs. Kirk and 
Dickinson, as occurring in one or other of them. Since that time 
about fifteen more have been added to our knowledge by the Dutch 
naturalists and travellers MM. Pollen and Van Dam. 
The present collection contains twenty-seven species, of which 
nineteen have been before known to occur in the group, and eight 
are new to the fauna, including five which have not hitherto been 
described. ‘The total number of the species of the Comoro Islands 
is therefore now raised to forty-six ; of these, three (or perhaps four) 
appear to me likely to have been introduced. 
Of the new species the most interesting is a true Turdus, no bird of 
this genus having been previously discovered in any of the Mascarene 
Islands or in Madagascar itself. Several of the other species are so 
nearly identical with those found in Madagascar that I have not 
ventured to describe them as distinct; yet they have well-marked 
features which make them easily recognizable from the former, either 
by length of feather, general colour, or size of beak. 
1, ACCIPITER PUSILLUS, 
Scelospizias pusillus, Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 358. 
Acciynter francesi, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 298, pl. vii.(nec A. Smith). 
Nisus francesii (pt.), Schlegel & Pollen, Rech. Madag. p. 36. 
Three specimens, one male and two females. 
‘Only saw two pair; found one egg in a female, sent herewith. 
Iris yellow or orange, beak bluish grey, legs and feet light yellow.” 
Native name ‘‘ Shimpangar.”’ 
I have already a specimen of this species, apparently a male, which 
was given to me by Dr. Playfair, R.N., of H.M.S. ‘ Orestes,’ having 
been shot at Pomony, Anjuan, November 16th, 1863. 
2. MILVUS =GYPTIUS. 
Milvus egyptius, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 298; Schlegel & Pollen, 
Rech. Madag. p. 44. 
Five specimens. ‘‘ Very common.” Native name ‘‘ Coosee.” 
3. ALUCO FLAMMEUS. 
Three specimens. ‘‘Three only seen and shot.’ Native name 
‘* Boondee.”’ 
4. CorACOPSIS COMORENSIS. 
Coracopsis comorensis, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 
1854, p. 371; Hartl. Madag. p. 59; Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 300. 
Three specimens, ‘‘ Very common in high forests, where it lives 
on tops of trees.” 
5. CORACOPSIS BARKLYI. 
Coracopsis barklyi, E. Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 346, 
pl. xxii.; Ibis, 1867, p. 341. 
One specimen. ‘The only one I saw.” 
This bird appears to me to be identical with C. barklyi, which 
has hitherto been found in the Seychelles group only. As the Parrots 
