1868.] LIEUT.-COL. PLAYFAIR ON FISHES FROM MADAGASCAR. 9 



27. FuLiGULA CRisTATA, Ray. 



One specimen, a young male, not different from the European 

 bird. As mentioned above, the occurrence of this essentially con- 

 tinental species in the Pelew Islands is certainly a very curious fact. 



28. PUFFINUS OPISTHOMELAS, CoueS. 



The under tail-coverts are uniformly black on both webs, without 

 the light colour of the tips. 



Long. tot. circa 13", alse 7" 3'", caudee 3" 2'", tars. 16'", dig. med. 

 16"', rostr. 12'". 



29. Sterna lunata, Peale. 



30. GrYGis ALBA (Sparrm.). 

 Six specimens. 



31. Anous stolidtjs (L.). 



32. Phaeton candidus, Gr. {Jlavirostris, Br.). 



33. Dysporus piscator (L.). 



34. Dysporus sula (L.). 



35. Carbo melanoleucus. Gray. 



One adult specimen, not different from the adult Australian bird. 



*' Eye and beak yellow ; legs black." Five nestlings. 



Pull. Lamigine nigricante obtectus; collo nudo nigricante ; capite, 



gula ditnidioque basalt mandibulce sordide aurantiaco-brunnes- 



centibus ; rostro nigro. 



3. On a Collection of Fishes from Madagascar. By Lieut. - 

 Colonel R. L. Playfair, F.Z.S., H.B.M. Consul-Ge- 

 neral in Algeria. 



I have lately received from my friend M. Alfred Grandidier a small 

 collection of Fishes made by him in Madagascar, with a request that 

 I would send them, after identification, to the Museum of Natural 

 History at Paris. 



M. Grandidier is well known in France as an intelligent and ad- 

 venturous oriental traveller. For the last three years he has been 

 travelling amongst the islands on the east coast of Africa, particu- 

 larly in Madagascar ; and after a hurried visit to his native country, 

 he has returned to complete his explorations in that interesting 

 island. 



In forwarding these fishes to me he states, "Of the four dried skins, 

 I caught the two largest (ieM;7«ws ramak and Otolithvs argenteus) 

 in the sea at Cape St. Mary ; tlic two smaller ones {Mngil smithii 

 and Chromis niloticus) were found in a river at Poiute i\ Larree, 



