IGO DR. P. L. SCLATER ON MAMMALS. [MaV 12, 



Grey Wagtail .... Motucilla hoarula, Lath. 



Ray's Wagtail rayi. 



Tree Pipit An this arbor eus, Bechst. 



Meadow Pipit pratensis (Linn.). 



Skylark Aluuda arvensis, Linn. 



Common Bunting Emheriza milaria, Linn. 



Chaffinch Frin(jlUa coelebs, Linn. 



House Sparrow Passer domesticus (Linn.). 



Greenfinch Ligurinus chloris (Linn.). 



Hawfinch Coccothraustes vulgaris, Briss. 



Goldfinch Cardttelis elegans. Staph. 



Common Linnet ^giothus Unarms (Linn.). 



Lesser Redpole ; 7idnor (Ray). 



Bullfinch Pyrrhida vidgaris, Briss. 



Starling Sturnus vulgaris, Linn. 



Carrion Crow Corvus corone, Linn. 



Rook frugilegns, Linn. 



Jackdaw monedula, Linn. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. . . . Picus major, Linn. 



Common Creeper. Certhia familiaris, Linn. 



Wren Troglodytes parvulus. 



*Swallo\v Hirundo rustica, Linn. 



Martin urbica, Linn. 



Swift Cypselus murarius, Temm. 



Nightjar Caprimulgus europceus, Linn. 



Wild Duck Anas boschas, Linn. 



Moorhen GaUinula chloropus (Linn.). 



Coot Fulica atra, Linn. 



The species marked thus * had been observed to breed in the 

 Society's Gardens. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Mammals and Birds collected in Madagascar 

 BY Dr. Charles Meller. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society'. 



Dr. Charles Meller, who went up with the Mission from Mauritius 

 to Antananarivof last year, as Medical Attendant, collected about 

 seventy skins of Mammals and Birds on the road between Tamatave 

 and the capital. At the suggestion of our Corresponding Member Mr. 

 Edward Newton, Dr. Meller has since forwarded these to me, along 

 with botanical specimens sent to the herbarium at Kew. 1 have 

 tlierefore done my best to determine the species in this collection ; 

 and, with the assistance of Dr. Hartlaub's book on the ' Birds of 

 Madagascar ' and Mr. Alfred Newton's personal aid, 1 believe I 

 have performed this with tolerable exactitude. 



Paper labels were attached to most of the specimens. The informa- 

 tion contained on these I have given as far as the words were legible. 



t See I.innean Society's Journal, Bot. vol. vii. p. bT, for an account of this ex- 

 pedition. 



