1866.] DR. SCHLEGEL ON NEW ANIMALS FROM MADAGASCAR. 421 



Noctua polleni, Schlegel, Contrib. I. c. Madagascar. Allied 

 to Noctua sonneratii, but with spotted primary quills and a dark 

 band crossing the under part of throat. 



Strix flammea. Four specimens collected. A little larger than 

 the European specimens. Colouring pale. 



Scops menadensis, of which Scops rutilus, Pucheran, is a red 

 variety. 



Caprimulgus longipennis, Shaw. Only noted to remark that 

 Semeiophorus vexillarius of Gould is based upon specimens freshly 

 moulted, when part of the long quills has not yet been used. 



Cypsehjs parvus. The only species of Swift observed in Mada- 

 gascar and Mayotte. Not found in Reunion and Mauritius. We 

 do not know Cyps. unicolor, Hartlaub, which at all events differs 

 from Cyps. unicolor, Jardine, observed at Madeira and on the Gold 

 Coast. 



Ch^etura grandidieri, Verreaux. 



Collocalia francica. Reunion. 



Hirundo borbonica. 



Eurystomus madagascariensis. See Pollen, Album de la Re- 

 union, 1866. 



Dacelo madagascariensis. Ispidina madagascariensis, Kaup. 

 Western coast of Madagascar. Exactly described by Brisson and 

 Hartlaub. It appears that Halcyon gularis does not inhabit Ma- 

 dagascar. See Dacelo fusca, Schlegel, Museum, Alcedines, p. 28. 



Alcedo vintsioides. Common in Mayotte and Madagascar. 



Merops superciliosus. Common in Madagascar and Mayotte. 

 Hardly to be distinguished from M. cegyptius, M. savignyi, and M. 

 vaillantii. Young specimens from Mayotte are like those of North- 

 ern Africa. Merops viridissimus was never heard of in Madagascar. 



Upupa marginata. Not very rare on the north-west coast of 

 Madagascar. 



Falculia palliata. A fine series, including very young ones, 

 collected on this coast. 



Nkctarinia angladiana and N. souimanga. Madagascar 

 and Nossi-be. The latter more common than the former. 



Nectarinia coquereli, J. Verreaux. Comes from Mayotte, 

 not from Madagascar. 



Drymoica ellisii. Ellisia typica, Hartlaub. In ferns, Mada- 

 gascar. 



Cisticola madagascariensis. Drymoica madagascariensis, 

 Hartlaub. 



Calamodyta newtoni. Madagascar. 



Bernierta major and B. minor. In ferns, on the north-west 

 coast of Madagascar. 



