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posed feathers adorn the fore and hind neck and the back, most con- 

 spicuously developed on the last; feet in skin dull yellowish; bill at 

 tip black, sharply and almost vertically defined from the brownish base 

 of maxilla and the yellowish base of mandible. 



Lengtn of wing, 250 mm.; tail, 94 mm.; exposed culmen, 61 mm.; 

 tarsus, 58 mm. ; middle toe and claw, 59 mm. 



BUTORIDES ATRICAPILLUS (Afzelius) . 



Ardea atricapilla Afzelius, Vet. Acad. Handl., XXV, 1804, p. 264. 

 Butorides atricapilla Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, 1855, p. 129. 



One adult from "between the two forests," East Madagascar. 



Family ANHINGIDiE. 



ANHINGA RUFA (Lacepede and Daudin) . 



Plotus rufus Lacepj^de and Daudin, in Buffon's Hist. Nat. Quadr., XIV, 1799, p. 

 319; Ois., XVII, p. 81. 



One specimen, evidently an immature female, from "between the two 

 forests,'' East Madagascar, taken in February, 1895. The under parts 

 of this individual vary from deep ochraceous to dull dark brown, but 

 are without black. The white band below the eye is wanting; the light 

 areas on the secondary coverts are large and nearly white; the scapu- 

 lars are but slightly developed. 



Family PHASIAi^ID^. 



MARGAROPERDIX MADAGARENSIS (Scopoli). 



Tetrao madagarensis Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., Ft. 2, 1786, p. 93. 

 Margaroperdix madagascariensis Hartert, Kat. Mus. Senckenb., 1891, p. 195. 



One specimen from Imerina, July, 1894. 



Family OOLUMBID^. 



TURTUR PICTURATUS (Temminck). 



Coluniba picturata Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., I, 1813, pp. 315, 480. 

 Turtur pieturatus Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. B., 1849, p. 236. 



Three specimens from East Imerina. "Iris brown; beak red-brown; 

 feet reddish." These individuals, as is frequently the case in this 

 species, have the slate color of the rump more or less mixed with brown. 



Family FALCONID^. 



FALCO ZONIVENTRIS (Peters). 



Hypotriorchis zoniventris Peters, Sitz. k. Pr. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1853, p. 7. 

 Falco zoniventris Schlegel and Pollen, Faun. Madagascar, Ois., 1868, p. 165. 



One male, apparently adult, from the East Imerina Forest, March, 

 1895. By reason of heavy streaking the jugulum is almost uniform 

 blackish. The specimen appears to have been in process of molt when 

 taken, as among the fresh feathers there are remains of the old plumage. 



