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pileo summo albido : genis albidis, brunneo striolatis : gutture 

 albo : pectore roseo, parte superiore punctulis parvis brunneo 

 notata. 



Long. tot. 4, culm. 03, al. 2*15, caud. 2- 15, tars. 0'6, poll, et dec. 

 Angl. 



Hab. Southern Spain (Irbg); Piedmont (Salvadori). 



The present species is closely allied to Acredida rosea of England, 

 but has the back blue-grey instead of black ; the black bands on each 

 side of the head are very broad and distinct, and the central white 

 streak is proportionally narrow. We have named this species after 

 Major Irby, well-known for his ornithological researches in India. 

 We shall be able to show that during his residence in Andalucia he 

 has exhibited no less energy ; for he has forwarded to us a series of 

 notes on all the birds of this country for publication in the ' Birds of 

 Europe.' 



The Acredidce may thus be enumerated : — 



1. Acredida caudata (L.). Hab. Scandinavia and the Northeru 

 Palsearctic Region generally. 



2. Acredida rosea (Blyth). Hab. British Islands and probably 

 Fiance and the Netherlands. 



3. Acredida irbii, S. & D. Hab. Southern Europe. 



4. Acredula trwirgata (T. & S.). Hab. Japan. 



5. Acredula glaucogularis, Gould (A. swi?ihoii, Pelz.). Hab. 

 China. 



6. Acredida tephronota, Giinth. Hab. Asia Minor. 



3. Contributions to the Ornithology of Madagascar. — Part II. 

 By R. B. Sharfe, F.L.S., Librarian to the Society, &c. 



[Received April 4, 1871.] 



(Plate XXXII.) 



Mr. Crossley, whose excellent collections formed the basis of my 

 former communication on this subject (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 384), has 

 lately returned to England, briuging with him another consignment 

 of natural-history specimens, amongst which are several fine birds. 

 These have been submitted to me in due course by Mr. Cutter, of 

 Great Russell Street; and the accompanying notes embody my ob- 

 servations on them. I may premise my description of the birds in- 

 cluded in it by a few remarks relating to some of the species men- 

 tioned by me in my former paper, as some of the specimens now sent 

 by Mr. Crossley afford us additional information respecting them. 

 The numbers now mentioned refer to those prefixed to the various 

 birds in the former article. 



1. Hypsipetes ourovang. 



This bird should stand as //. madagascariensis (Mull.) ; cf. Gray's 

 lland-1. of B. i. p. 272, and Sharpe's Cat. Afr. B. p. 21. 



