ON EXTmCT BIRDS OF THE MASCARENE ISLANDS. 371 



hides from us the greatest part of these forms so curious of a 

 population now disappeared entirely." 



Addendum to Appendix D. 



By the courtesy of Professor Kewton a facsimile is here given 

 from Plate II, of Part V, de Bry's India Orientalis,^ which well 

 illustrates the life and surroundings of the first Dutch colonists 

 when they settled in Mauritius in 1598. The title of the first 

 copper-plate engraving is : — " Delineatio insulte Docerne, alias 

 Mauritius dicta." — And the second, here reproduced, is entitled : 

 — Quae ab Hollandis in insula Mauritii, turn visa turn gesta sint." 

 — Here are shown the land-tortoises, the dodo, the Latanier palm, 

 the Babos Forcadox, the Indian Crow, so called (but which 

 Professor Newton considers to be intended for the Fsittacus 

 Mauritianus, whose most extraordinary feature is the singular 

 frontal crest {Ibis, 1866, p. 168), on account of which he pro- 

 poses to name the group of Parrots of which it is the type, 

 Lopho2)siUacus), the heraldic insignia on a wild tree, the cabbage 

 palm, the flying-fox, the smithy, the huts, the preaching and the 

 fishing, etc. In fact, the quaint engraving does not inaptly 

 represent the first operations of colonists in the Mascarene islands 

 up to the time when Leguat and his companions landed in thern 

 a hundred years later. 



Mr. Strickland,- in his history of the extinct brevipennate birds 

 of the Mascarene Islands (at page 26) quotes a MS. document in 

 the British Museum, entitled "A coppey of Mr. Benj. Harry's 

 Journall, -when he was chief mate of the Shippe Berldey Castle, 

 Captain Wm. Talbot then Commander, on a voyage to the coste 



1 Collectiones Peregrinatwnum in Indknn Orientalem ^- Indiam Occi- 

 dentaJem XXV pardbits comprehensae ; Opns illustratum Jiguris eeneis 

 fratrum de Bry S,- Meriani. Francofurti at Moenum 1590, & ann. seq. 

 ad arm. 1G34, 7 vol. iu foL Pars quinta. 



2 The Dodo and its Kindred, or the History, Affinities, and Osteology 

 of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, 

 Rodriguez, and Bourbon, by H. E. Strickland and A. G. Melville, 

 Part I, by H. E. Strickland. 



B B 2 



