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2. On a New Bird from the Island of Madagascar. 

 By Alfred Newton, M.A., F.L.S,, F.Z.S. 



(Plate XIII.) 



My brother, Mr. Edward Newton, Assistant Colonial Secretary at 

 Mauritius, and a Corresponding Member of this Society, having had 

 last autumn the good fortune to make a second visit to Madagascar, 

 has sent me a collection of birds from that island, containing many 

 objects of great interest, among which is one that I believe forms a 

 genus very distinct from any previously known. This I have now 

 the honour to exhibit and describe. 



Hypherpes*, genus novum Certhianum yel Sittinum. 



Char. Gen. — Rostrum breve, robustum, leviter emarginatum, ad 

 apicem aliquanto compressum, rictu setoso. AIcb mediocres, 

 rotundatce, adcaudam medium attingentes, remige quarto, quinto 

 et sexto cequalibus ; tertio septimum, et octavo secundum, super- 

 antibus; primo multo breviore. Cauda mediocris, prope cequalis, 

 rectricibus duodecim aliquanto rigentibus. Pedes validissimi, 

 tarsis quam digiti medii posticique longioribus, unguibus com- 

 pressis, subvalidis. 



Hypherpes corallirostris, sp. nov. (PI, XIII.) 



Capite, gutture, pectore et abdomine schistaceo-brunneis, olivaceo 



indutis ; collo, dorso, alis caudaque supra fusco-cceruleis, virente 



tinctis : remigibus fuscis, extus pallide marginatis, intus cer- 



vino latins limbatis, ut in Tichodroma : uropygio et crisso 



subrufescentibus, rectricibus obsolete fasciatis : rostro toto 



coccineo ; pedibus plumbeis : iridibus obscure rubris. 



Longitudo tota 4'8 poll. Angl. et dec. ; rostri a fronte 'A, a rictu 



•65 ; alse 2*9 ; caudse 2*2 ; tarsi 0'9 ; digiti medii cum ungue 0'8, 



postici 0*97. 



March 24, 1863. 



W. H. Flower, Esq., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Buckland made some remarks on the progress of the ex- 

 periments for hatching the ova of Trout and Salmon in the Society's 

 Gardens. 



Mr. Wallace made some remarks on a Hornbill living in the So- 

 ciety's Gardens, which he believed to be a discoloured specimen of 

 Buceros (Hydrocissa) pica, a common Malaccan species. 



* vTrb, sub ; epir?js ex epTTu, repo. 



