. 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 Froc. 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. Th
. 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 Froc. 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 peculiarOwl, Athene murivora, a big Parrot, Necropsittacus rodericanus, aDove, Erythrcena (? sp. ign.), a large brevipennate Heron, Ardeaonegacephala, and a singular Rail, described as Miserythrus leguati,but perhaps not generically distinct from the Mauritian Aphanapteryx—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, Fregilupus varius, adapted from figures by Daubentoii,Levaillant, and others. Reduced. yet been determined, as those of the species above mentioned havebeen. A second Parrot, or rather Parrakeet, Fahvornis exstd, stillexists, but in veiy small numbers, and the only tAvo 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, AUi Soc. Torino, xi. pp, Iroc. Zool. Soc. 1875, pp. 39-42. EXTERMINA TION 219 Iavages. We cannot read the accounts not merely of the earliestAovages to the Antilles, but even of those performed within the lasthundred years, without being aware that
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