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12. j Eurystomus madagascariensis (Linnseus). 
“ Voronkark.” 
I saw one example at Chasmanna. Though we passed over 
the same route as Dr. Koch did last year, between Tamatave and 
Foule Point, and where he found this species so plentiful, we 
did not observe it. We were very nearly two months earlier; 
and perhaps the bird in those parts is migratory. 
13. Brachypteracias leptosomus (Lesson). 
A specimen was obtained by Captain Anson near Ampasimbe 
on his return from Antananarivo. 
14. Atelornis pittoides , Lafresnaye. 
Obtained by Captain Anson and Mr. Caldwell in the forest 
of Alanamasaotra—the only locality in which I have yet heard 
of it. 
15. Corythornis vintsioides } Lafresnaye. 
“ Vinshi.” 
As common as it was last year. 
16. Merops superciliosus, Linnseus, 
“Kirio kirio" (so called from its cry). 
To be seen hawking about the Hivondrona river almost daily. 
On the Eangandrafrah, a tributary of the Hivondrona, I dug 
out a female Bee-eater from a hole in the bank of the river, 
about three feet in length; the nest was not yet made, and the 
bird's beak was covered with soil, showing that she was still 
working at the excavation. All the specimens, of both sexes, 
that we obtained were bare of feathers on their breasts and 
thighs, as if incubating. That they had not all done so, was 
evident from the nest of the one I have mentioned not being 
finished; yet it and its mate were both as naked as the others. 
Is this a peculiarity of the genus ? In both sexes, iris red, beak 
black, legs brown. 
in Mauritius, but it is certainly much rarer; for at the locality in the 
district of Savanne where I have observed it to be most plentiful I re¬ 
mained for ten days, in June 1862, and never observed more than three at 
once, and as they were always at the same place, they might have been the 
same individuals. 
