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of the indigenous forms found there more than half are now 

 extinct " owing to the exertions of paid collectors " \ 



A useful list, originally prepared by Dr. Gadow for the 

 International Congress of Ornithologists at Cambridge in 

 1905^ illustrates the features of the avifauna of the Seychelles 

 and the Mascarene Islands, and shews the representative 

 species of land-birds in each island. The most noteworthy 

 genera are Zosterops, Hypsipetes, Coracopsis, Erythroenas, 

 and Turtur. All of these are well represented by different 

 species in the Mascarene Ornis, in which African and Indian 

 influences seem to be nearly balanced, 



A large Pelican {Pelecanus crispus) is said to have been 

 found breeding in the " cocoanut and other large trees'" of 

 the eastern island of the St. Joseph Atoll in the Amirante 

 group. This is a curious observation, but we would ask 

 whether specimens were obtained and whether it is certain 

 that they are Pelecanus crispus? 



92. Goeldi on the Names of two South- American Birds. 



[^Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus e Pipra coslesti-pileata, una questao de 

 prioridade poiico a men gosto. Pelo Prof. Dr. Emilio A. Goeldi, Director 

 do Museu do Para. Bol. Miis. Goeldi (Museu Paraease), vol. v. p. 77.] 



This is Dr. Goeldi^s view in a question of priority as 

 regards the proper names of two South-American birds, 

 given as above written by Dr. Goeldi, but called in the one 

 case Galbalcyrhynchiis leucotis innotatus by Dr. v. Ihering and 

 in the other Pipra exquisita by Hellmayr ^. Who shall decide 

 when Doctors disagree '' ? 



93. Goeldi on a new Genus of Trogons. 



[Microtrogon, novo nome generico proposto para Troyon ramonianus 

 Des Murs. Pelo Prof. Dr. Emilio A. Goeldi. Bol. Mus. Goeldi (Miiseu 

 Paraense), vol. v. p. 9i?.] 



The new generic name Microtrogon is proposed for Trogon, 

 ramonianus (see Grant, Cat. B. xvii. p. 464) on account of 

 its small size and the shape of the bill viewed in a transverse 

 section, of which an illustration is given. 



* See ' Ibis,' 1906, p. 35, pi. i. 



