CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BIEDS FEOM MADA- 

 GASCAR. 



By Harry C. Oberholser, 



Assistant Biologist, Department of AgriciiUure. 



During a period of some eighteen montlis, extending from July, 1894, 

 to February, 1896, the Eev. James Wills formed a small collection of 

 birds in Madagascar. He worked chiefly in Imerina, in the east central 

 part of that island, most of the specimens coming from the various 

 forests in the more or less immediate vicinity of that locality. These 

 birds, numbering 110 and referable to 57 species, were eventually 

 purchased by the United States National Museum. In the list which 

 follows, the presence of the rare Lophotibis cristata and the little known 

 Ardeola xantliopoda seems worthy of note. Pertinent remarks on the 

 colors of the soft parts, which, whenever available, are added from the 

 labels of the specimens, will be found between quotation marks 



Family COLYMBID^. 



COLYMBUS PELZELNII (Hartlaub). 

 Podieeps velzelnii Hartlaub, Faun. MacTagasc, 1861, p. 83. 



One adult, apparently in breeding plumage, from East Imerina, 

 December, 1894. 



The specimen collected by Dr. Abbott on the River Mangoro, Mada- 

 gascar, and recorded by Dr. Richmond^ as Colymbus pelzelnii, proves 

 to be not this species at all, but Colymhus capensis (Lichtenstein^ 



Family SCOLOPACID^. 



ACTITIS HYPOLEUCA (Linnaeus). 



Tringa hypoleucos Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1, 1758, p. 149. 

 Actitis hypoleucos Illiger, Proclr., 1811, p. 262. 



One apparently immature bird from East Imerina, taken in Feb- 

 ruary, 1896. 



J Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 1897, p. 677. 



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