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“...Bois-noir or Black-wood ; and the
Mavoravina (which belongs to the Order Malpighiaceae) is a tall
shrub or small tree with long, weak, straggling branches, which
appear as though they had once been in the habit of climbing,
but had recently resolved to lean no longer on others for sup-
port.
The birds here were nearly all unknown to me. The Goaika
(a crow, Corvus scapulaius, Dand.), Papango (a kite, Milvus
cegyplius, Gm.), Tsikorovana (a fruit-thrush, H^-psipetes ourovang,
Gm.), ICaitso(acuckoo, Coua cosrulea,~L.), Toloho (a lark-heeled cuc-
koo, Centropus toLou, Gm.), Aankafotra (a cuckoo, Cuculus Rochii,
Hartl.), Vorompbtsy (an egret, Ardeabubulcus, Sav.), Manarana (a
* I may say that we found fossils in many places, not only on the road to Anorontsanga
but also between Mojanga and Antananarivo, in fact wherever the limestone occurred. I
hope at some future time, after their identification in England, to give a list of them, and the
localities where found, as also further particulars of...”
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