Dr. G. Ilartlaub on the Ornithology of Madagascar. 393 



105. Phcenicopterus antiquorum, Temm. — Sambe, Flac. Madag. 

 p. 164. Flamant, Sganz. I. c. p. 47. 



106. Nettapus auritus (Bodd.), PI. enl. 770. — Anas madagasca- 

 riensis, Gm. ; Sganz. p. 48. Also in Western Africa, Catal. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. iii. p. 128. (Rendall.) 



107. Sarkidiornis regia (Mol.), Eyton. — Anas melanotos, Penn. ; 

 PI. enl. 937. Rossangue, Flac. Madag. p. 164. " Canard a bosse," 

 Sganz. p. 49 ; Denh. Clapp. Centr. Afr. p. 204; Delegorg. Voy. Afr. 

 aust. ii. p. 5)31 ; li'dpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 136. 



Whether this species, which lives in Madagascar, be not rather 

 the S. africana, Eyt., remains undecided. We know in fact very 

 little of the ducks of that country. Fiacourt names " four sarcelles," 

 Desjardins, " four species of the genus Anas," and the Abbe Rochon 

 mentions six species of ducks. Sganzin has only three. 



108. Podiceps minor, L., Desjard. Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 45. 

 A passage in Du Maine, Voy. a la terre d'Ancaye, Deutsch. Uebers. 

 Spreng. Bibl. Reis. 46. p« 75, alludes to the occurrence of a second 

 species of Podiceps : " Here we procured a bird not so large as a 

 teal with black pointed beak, clear brown head and body, black col- 

 lar and white belly ; the feet seem to go out behind and are divided 

 into little ' palettes pour nager.' " 



109. Larus ridibundus, Leisl. (?) — " Petite Mouette cendree," Buff., 

 Sganz. I. c. p. 49. 



110. Phaeton phoznicurus, L. 



111. Phaeton flavirostris , Br. 



112. Procellaria capensis y L. 



113. Sula piscatrix, L. 



What is Pelecanus madagascariensis, Fisch., National Mus. at 

 Paris, i. p. 192 ? 



Although, from our slight acquaintance with the interior of 

 Madagascar, the species here enumerated probably form only a 

 minority of the entire ornithology of this great island, yet their 

 number appears to us to be sufficiently large to guide us to certain 

 geographical and zoological results. These tend altogether to con- 

 firm that great peculiarity of character in the Madagascar fauna 

 which is also indicated by the other animal classes. Not less 

 than 68 of the 113 species above-mentioned have never yet been 

 discovered either in the African continent or in any other region 

 of the earth. They belong exclusively to the island, and include 

 a number of remarkable forms, distinguished by their colour and 

 structure. The genera Euryceros, Falculia, Mesites, Oriolia, 

 Leptosomus, Coua, Philepifta, Brachypteracias, Atelornis, Cora- 

 copsis and Biensis are confined to Madagascar ; two others, Fre- 

 gilupus and Alectranas, extend also to the Mascarene islands, 

 which are proportionably poor in birds. Of eight African genera, 

 that is to say, such as are peculiar to the African continent, Ma- 

 dagascar, as far as known, possesses four, viz. Scopus, Numida, 

 Polyboroides, and Melicrax. The first of these, Scopus umhretta, 



