484 COLLECTIONS FROM IHE WESTERN INBIAN OCEAN. 



4. Sterna melanauchen, T. 

 GovJd, B. Austr. ii. p. 400. 



a. S. African Island, Amirante group, March 16, 1882. Iris 

 dark ; bill, legs, and feet black. 



Writing on this species in the Fiji Islands, Mr. E. L. Layard ob- 

 serves that he procured Anous cinereus on the coral-reefs north-east 

 of Madagascar twenty years ago. Dr. Hartlaub, in his ' Vogel Mada- 

 gascars,' very properly remarks that this statement requires confir- 

 mation in the highest degree, an observation I thoroughly indorse. 

 Can it have been the present species (S. melanauchen) whicb Mr. 

 Layard intended to write about ? Anyhow, the range of the latter 

 species is now greatly extended. 



From the Glorioso Islands. 



5. Zosterops madagascariensis (£.). 



Hartl. t. c. p. 102. 



a. 2 . Glorioso Islands, May 1882. Iris dark ; bill black ; legs 

 and feet grey. 



6. Corvus scapulatus, Baud. 

 Hartl. t. c. p. 201. 



a. (J . Glorioso Islands, May 1882. Iris dark ; bill, legs, and feet 

 black. 



7. Turtur coppingeri, sp. n. 



T. similis T. aldabrano, sed tergo brunneo et pileo fuscescenti- 

 brunneo, fronte tantum pallide vinacea, et subcaudalibus cinereo 

 lava,tis distinguendus. Long. tot. 12 poll., culm. 0-7, ate 6-45 

 caudae 4-15, tarsi 1-0. ' 



a. 5 . Glorioso Islands, May 1882. Iris orange-red ; bill dark ; 

 legs and feet dark red. 



This species appears to be allied to T. aldabranus, Sclater (P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 692, pi. Ixxiii.) ; but the white on the belly, which is showii 

 in the plate, and referred to in Dr. Sclater's description, does not 

 appear so prominently in the skins of the type specimens kindly 

 lent to me by Prof. Newton. ■ The Glorioso Turtle-Dove differs from 

 T. aldabranus in its browner upper surface, by the bluish-grey 

 wash on the under tail-coverts, and especially in the pale vinous 

 forehead, which contrasts somewhat with the dusky ash-colour of 

 the head. 



8. Strepsilas interpres (i.). 

 Sartl. t. c. p. 293. 



a. 2 ■ Glorioso Islands, May 1882. Iris dark ; biU horn-colour • 

 legs and feet yellow. ' 



Still in immature plumage, but showing a trace of the approach- 

 ing rufous dress. 



