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Family EALLID^. 



GALLINULA CHLOROPUS PYRRHORRHOA (Newton). 



Gallinula pyrrhorrhoa A. Newton, Proc. ZoqI. Soc. Lond., 1861, p. 19. 

 GalUnula cMoropus pyrrJiorrhoa Sibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 114. 



One specimen, April, 1895, from "between the two forests," East 

 Madagascar. 



The ochraceous crissum seems to warrant at least the subspecific 

 separation of the Maclagascan form of GalUnula chloropus, although the 

 occasional presence of this character in the typical bird indicates the 

 inadvisability of according pyrrlwrrhoa specific rank. 



Family ANATID^. 



NETTION PUNCTATUM (Burchell). 



Anas punctata Burchell, Travels S. Africa, 1, 1822, p. 283 (note). 

 Nettion punctatum Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVIT, 1895, p. 265. 



Two specimens, seemingly male and female, though unsexed. The 

 supposed female is of generally duller plumage than the male; the spots 

 on neck, throat, jugulum, breast, flanks, and sides are larger and less 

 sharply defined; the sides, together with the upper and lower tail 

 coverts, lack almost entirely the wavy cross lines; and the inner sec 

 oudaries are only very slightly glossed with greenish. 



SAROTHRURA INSULARIS (Sharpe). 



Corethrura in sularis Sharpk, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 400. 

 Sarothrura insularis Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1894, p. 148. 



Two examples from East Imeriua. One is apparently an immature 

 male, differing from the adult of the same sex in the presence of much 

 brownish olivaceous admixture on the posterior portion of the lower 

 surface. 



DRYOLIMNAS CUVIERI (Pucheran). 



Eallus cuvieri Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1845, p. 279. 



DryoUmnas cuvieri Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, II, January, 1893, p. xxviii. 



One male, apparently adult, from the Mampidongy Forest, East 

 Imerina, February, 1896. " Native name, Tsikia. Iris reddish brown." 



Family IBIDID^. 



LOPHOTIBIS CRISTATA (Boddaert). 



Tantalus cristatus Boddaert, Tabl. PL Enlum., 1783, p. 51. 

 Loplwtibis cristatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II, 1855, p. 154. 



Two examples from the East Imerina Forest. One of these is an 

 immature bird, differing from the adult in rufous edgings to the wing- 

 coverts, and in the paler color of all the chestnut areas. The following 

 data refer to the adult: "Iris reddish; skin around eye bright red; 

 beak greenish ; feet dark red." 



