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Mr. E. Newton’s Second Visit to Madagascar. 
a pair at Ampasimaventy. Iris dark brown; beak lead-colour, 
darker, at tip ; legs lead-colour. 
29. Hypsipetes ourovang (Gmelin). 
“ Horaovana ” (pronounced “ Wroova ”). 
Certainly the commonest bird I met with. On the 4th of 
October, at Ampasimaventy, a man brought me a live Thrush, 
the lining of a nest, and two eggs, on which he said he caught 
the bird. It proved to be a female, and had the breast bare of 
feathers. The nest appears to have been outwardly composed 
of coarse grass, roots, and moss ; it was lined with the fine flower- 
stems of some unbelliferous plant. 
The eggs are creamy white, blotched and spotted thinly with 
lead-grey, and more thickly with deep pinkish brown—the latter 
markings being chiefly disposed at the larger end, or distributed 
zonewise. Long diam. *93 inch, transv. diam. *74 inch. Iris 
bright red, beak orange, legs dusky yellow. 
30. Erythrosterna (?) brunneic auda, A. Newton, Proc. 
Zool. Soc., May 12, 1863*. 
Near Fenerive I obtained two examples of this species, both 
females, on the 16th and 18th of October respectively. Iris 
light yellow, beak black, legs lead-colour. 
31. Tchitrea pretiosa, Lesson. 
“ Sket-vololo.” 
I once or twice saw this bird "(and, from his description, I 
believe Dr. Roch saw it last year at Ranomafana), but I did not 
get a shot at one until I was at Chasmanna. They generally 
keep in thick bushes or dark forests, and, notwithstanding their 
conspicuous plumage, are not often seen. I saw one rufous- 
coloured example of a u Sket” on the coast and at Chasmanna, 
* We also subjoin Mr. A. Newton’s description of this apparently new 
bird:— 
“ Erythrosterna (?) brunneicauda, sp. nov. 
“ E. ad Erythrosternam parvctm multo appropinquans, sed cauda unicolore. 
“ Descr. fwminai junior is V ).—Supra olivaceo-murina, remigibus externe 
pallidius limbatis, subtus rufescenti-albida ; rostro nigricante, pedibus 
schistaceis, iridibus pallide flavis. Long. tot. 4‘62; alee 2; caudse 
1*45 ; tarsi 71 ; dig. med. c. ung. ‘48 ; rostr. ‘SS.”—Ed. 
