. A dictionary of birds . For a notice of the specimen in the Museum ofScience and Art in Edinburgh, and the only one known to exist in the UnitedKingdom, see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, pp. 2-4. ^ The only known skeleton is in the Museum of the University of Cambridge,and has been minutely described by Dr. Murie [Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 474-488). In 1889 the British Museum obtained, at the dispersal of the Riocour 2l8 EXTERMINA TION Perhaps, also, there were other Ralline birds, but the evidence onthis head is inconclusive. From Rodriguez, the greater part of itsoriginal Avifauna has vanished.
. A dictionary of birds . For a notice of the specimen in the Museum ofScience and Art in Edinburgh, and the only one known to exist in the UnitedKingdom, see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, pp. 2-4. ^ The only known skeleton is in the Museum of the University of Cambridge,and has been minutely described by Dr. Murie [Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 474-488). In 1889 the British Museum obtained, at the dispersal of the Riocour 2l8 EXTERMINA TION Perhaps, also, there were other Ralline birds, but the evidence onthis head is inconclusive. From Rodriguez, the greater part of itsoriginal Avifauna has vanished. There was a small but j^eculiarOwl, Athene murivora, a big Parrot, Necropsittacus rodericanus, aDove, Erythrcena (? sp. ign.), a large brevipennate Heron, Ardeamegacephala, and a singular Rail, described as Misenithrus leguati,but perhaps not generically distinct from the MaMritismAplianapteryx—besides other birds of which we know from old voyagers,^ thoughtheir remains, from the numerous caverns of the island, have not. Extinct Starling of Reunion, Fregiliqms varius, adapted from figures by Daubentoii,Levaillaut, and others. Reduced. yet been determined, as those of the species above mentioned havebeen. A second Parrot, or rather Parrakeet, Palseornis exsul, stillexists, but in very small numbers, and the only two specimensknown to have been obtained are in the Museum at Cambridge.(Ibis, 1872, p. 31 ; 1875, p. 342, pi. vii.) With the examples of these Mascarene Islands before us, it isnot without reason that Ave suppose a like fate to have befallenmany of the feathered inhabitants of other places exposed to similar collection, the only skin believed to be in the British Islands. For a notice ofother specimens see Salvadori, Afti Soc. Torino, xi. pp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, pp. 39-42. EX TERMINA TION 219 ravages. We cannot read the accounts not merely of the earliestvoyages to the Antilles, but even of those performed within the lasthundred years, without being aware
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