. The voyages made by the sieur to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72 . rbes. From the Ibis, 1879, pp. 303-307. During a visit to Paris last autumn in company with and Dr. Hartlaub, I had an opportunity of seeing for thefirst time in the gallery of the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes,one1 of the two sole extant specimens of Le Perroquet mascarinof Brisson, the Coracopsis mascarina of most authors. Thisspecimen is not improbably that described by Brisson, and is 1 The other is in the Vienna Museum [cf. Pelzeln, Ibis, 1873,
. The voyages made by the sieur to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72 . rbes. From the Ibis, 1879, pp. 303-307. During a visit to Paris last autumn in company with and Dr. Hartlaub, I had an opportunity of seeing for thefirst time in the gallery of the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes,one1 of the two sole extant specimens of Le Perroquet mascarinof Brisson, the Coracopsis mascarina of most authors. Thisspecimen is not improbably that described by Brisson, and is 1 The other is in the Vienna Museum [cf. Pelzeln, Ibis, 1873, P- 32)« Appendices 139 still in a fair state of preservation, though its wings and tail arerather damaged. On seeing it I was at once struck with severalpoints in which it differed conspicuously from the other speciesusually placed in the genus Coracopsis; and after my return toEngland, at my request, Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards waskind enough to have life-sized sketches of the head and foot ofthis specimen made for me, which are here reproduced, all thefigures we have of this species being more or less reduced in Head of Mascarinus duboisi As will be seen from the drawing, the beak in this species is verylarge and deep, not so compressed and elongated as in Psittacusor Coracopsis, but more like in shape that of a large-billed speciesof Tanygnathus or Palazornis. Moreover, the beak is red, as inmost of the species of the two last-named genera; whereas inPsittacus or Coracopsis it is black, or dirty white. The head isfully feathered, the frontal plumes covering the cere, so that thenostrils are concealed by them. The lores also are fully feathered,and there is only a narrow circumorbital ring, and particularly inC. vasa, the lores are sparingly The feet differ from those of Coracopsis in their shorter andthicker tarso-metatarsi and shorter nails. [ Vide figs. 2, 3.] From these considerations, it is, I think, clear that the Per-roquet mascarin is not rel
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