216 EXTERMINATION 
or Mauritius, by the Dutch under Van Neck at the end of the 16th 
century, was found to inhabit that island. Voyagers have vied 
with each other in describing or depicting its uncouth appearance, 
and its name has almost passed into a byword expressive of all 
that is effete. Clumsy, flightless, and defenceless, it soon suc- 
cumbed, not so much to the human invaders of its realm as to the 
domestic beasts—especially Hogs !—which accompanied them, and 
there gaining their liberty, unchecked by much of the wholesome 
discipline of nature, ran riot, to the utter destruction (as will be 
seen) of no inconsiderable portion of the Mauritian fauna. 
Extinct CresTED Parrot or Mauritius, Lophopsittacus mauritianus. Adapted from a tracing 
by M. A. Milne-Edwards of the original drawing in a MS. Journal kept during Wolphart 
Harmanszoon's voyage to Mauritius, a.p. 1601-1602 (¢f. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 350). 
But the Dodo is not the only member of its Family that has 
vanished. The little island which has successively borne the name 
of Mascaregnas, England’s Forest, Bourbon, and Réunion, and lies 
to the southward of Mauritius, had also an allied Bird, now dead 
1 In La Roque’s account of the Voyage de Vl Arabie Heureuse (Paris: 1715) in 
1708-10 (the first made by the French) it is stated that the ships touched at 
Mauritius in September 1709 and that ‘‘de Vautre cdté de Visle audelA’ des mon- 
tagnes on trouvoir force sangliers, qui faisoient un tel dégat, qu’on avoit depuis 
peu ordonné une chasse générale pour les détruire, & que les habitans s’étant 
assemblez, on en tua en un jour plus de quinze cens” (p. 175). A few days after 
he writes: ‘fen me promenant dans leur jardin, j’eus le plaisir de voir de derriere 
la haye plus de quatre mille singes dans le champ voisin” (p. 183). In regard to 
