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young ones as Boon as they were hatched, — a destruction which may 

 have beea completed long before the island was inhabited. 



The bones procured by M. Eudes for Mr. Telfair have been pre- 

 seuted by that gentleman to the Society. They were laid on the 

 table. They include, ■with numerous bones of the extreiiiities of one 

 or more large species of Tortoise, sevcral bones of the hinder extre- 

 mity of a large bird, and the head of a hmierus. With reference to the 

 metatarsal bone of the bird, which was long and strong, Dr. Grant 

 pointed out that it possessed articulating surfaces for four toes, three 

 directed forwards and one back\vards, as in the foot of the Dodo pre- 

 served in the British Museum, to -vvhich it was also proportioned in 

 its inEignitude and for m, 



The Gannet, designated in Rodriguez as the Oiseau-boeuf, •was also 

 exhibited. It was apparently refeiTible to the lesser Gannet of Dr. 

 Latham, the Sula candida, Briss., and Pelecanus Piscator, Linn. 



The Fishes presented by Mr. Telfair ■vvere exliibited. They include 

 specimens of about iifty species, among which the foUovving were 

 pointed out by Mr. Bennett as apparentiy hitherto undescpbed. 



Apogon vittiger. Ap. brunnescenti-rvfescens; vittd laterum medid 

 rectd anticė productd rostrumgue cingente, maculdque purvd ro- 

 tundatd ad basln piniicE caudalis, nigris. 



D. 7. -5. A. i. 



Gobius semicinctus. Gob. oculis lateralibiis : piiind caudali subro- 

 tundatd : brunneus, infrd pallidior, semlcingulis sex veniralibus 

 argenteis nigro-mar ginai is ; genis operculisgue caruleo-gtittatif: 

 lituratisįue ; guttd nigrd ad busin pinn<£ caudalis ; pinnd unali ad 

 basin cctruleo jmnctutd. 



D. 6, 16. A. 14. C. 17. P. 18. V. G— G. 



Clupea Mauritiana. Chp. pinnd dorsali vix pone aqvilibrium 

 positd ; ventralibus subdorsalis medio ; anali subelongatd : dorsu 

 vittdąue supra lineam luteralem iridcscenti-plnmbeis, ventre favi- 

 cante-argenteo. 



D. 19. A. 19. V. 9. P. 16. 



Murina molendinaris. Mur. dentibus rotundatis ; jnaiiUa su- 

 perioris utringve uniseriatis, vonierinis numei-usissimis confertis 

 irregidariter 10 — \2-seriatis ; maxiU<£ inferioris: utringue 5 — 6- 

 seriatis : corpore brunnescenti-nigro, lineis albidis ultra centenis 

 circumdato. 



A Murcend Zebru, Sha\v, satis difFert numero et ordinatione den- 

 tium : caeterum colore picturaque siraillima, lineis tamen albidis cir- 

 cularibus magis numerosis. Longitudo circiter 4-pedalis. 



Ophisurus CROcoDiLiNUS. Oph. pinHis pectorulibus porvis: max- 

 illd inferiore longiore : dentibus aciitis ; maxilla: superioris parvis 

 subapproxiniatis, palatinis majoribus distantibus, vonierinis 4 — 5 

 maximis ; maxill(c inferioris utringne 8 — \0, intei-mediis distan- 

 tibus maximis : oculis rhinario proximis, cristd ossed postice sv- 

 pereminente : suprd fusco-cinerascens, inf ra pallidior ; pinais pal- 

 lidis; lined lalerali serie stigmatvm nigrorum dii^tinrtd. 



