. A dictionary of birds . in Edinburgh, and the only one known to exist in the UnitedKingdom, see F7-oc. 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 {Pro:. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 474-488). In 1889 the British Museum obtained, at the dispersal of the Riocour 2l8 EXTERMINA TION Perhaps, also, there Avere other Kalline birds, but the evidence on this head is inconclusive. From Rodriguez, the greater part of its original Avifauna has A^anished. There Av^as a small but peculiar Owl, Athene viiirivora,
. A dictionary of birds . in Edinburgh, and the only one known to exist in the UnitedKingdom, see F7-oc. 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 {Pro:. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 474-488). In 1889 the British Museum obtained, at the dispersal of the Riocour 2l8 EXTERMINA TION Perhaps, also, there Avere other Kalline birds, but the evidence on this head is inconclusive. From Rodriguez, the greater part of its original Avifauna has A^anished. There Av^as a small but peculiar Owl, Athene viiirivora, a big Parrot, Necropsittacus rodericanus, a Dove, Eriitlinena (1 sp. ien.), a large brevipennate Heron, Ardea 7 7 1 • f T^ 1 -if ,e-(yf megacephala, and a singular Kail, described as Mimii/ltF^ leguati, but perhaps not generically distinct from the Mauritian Aphanaptenjx —besides other birds of Avhich Ave know from old Acyagers,-- though their remains, from the numerous caverns of the island, have not. Extinct Starling of Reunion, Fregilupus varius, adapted fi-om fijjures by DauLcnton,Levaillaiit, and oUiers. Reduced. yet been determined, as those of the species aboA^e mentioned iiavebeen. A second Parrot, or rather Parrakeet, Pcdaiornis cxsid, stillexists, but in very small numbers, and the only tAvo specimensknoAvn 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 Avithout 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, Atti 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, Avithout being aware that th
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