3448 The Zoologist — March, 1873. 



specimen with any white about it this winter. — G. Bentley Corbin ; 

 Rmgivood. 



Cream-colonrcd Mole. — One was sent me lately, making the ninth or 

 tenth specimen I have seen during my short experience in taxidermy. — Id. 



llesiTy Uares in North Lancashire. — Occasionally very heavy hares are 

 killed in North Lancashire. In 1861 we shot one weighing thirteen pounds, 

 and I was told of one being killed at Kufford, in 187) or 1873 (I forget 

 which), weighing twelve pounds two ounces. — Hugh P. Hornby ; 9, Norfolk 

 Street, Strand, W.C. 



Second Supplementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Ulascarene 

 Islands.'^' — The small portion of the grant so liberally voted by the Asso- 

 ciation at the Birmingham Meeting in 1865, to aid my brother, Mr. Edward 

 Newton, in his researches into the extinct birds of the Mascarene Islands, 

 which remained unexpended at the time of my last reporting his progress, 

 has during the last year or so been employed by hira in a renewed examina- 

 tion of the caves in the island of Rodriguez, which had already produced so 

 much of interest. This examination has been conducted, as before, by 

 Mr. George Jenner, lately the chief executive officer of the island ; and 

 though I am not in a position to give anything like a detailed account of 

 the results, I am happy to say that I believe they will be found in time to 

 be fully as instructive as those of the former examination have been. We 

 are now in possession of several parts of the skeleton of Pezophaps which 

 have hitherto been wanting, and of more perfect specimens of some of 

 those bones which we before obtained. We have also additional remains of 

 the lai'ge Psittacine bird, described from a single fragmentary maxilla by 

 Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards as Psittacus(?) rodericanus, and these, 

 I hope, will enable that accomplished palaeontologist to determine more 

 particularly the affinities of the species, w'hich have hitherto been doubtful ; 

 and I may add that thus some further light may be thrown upon the 

 position of the P. mauritianus of Prof. Owen. In the course of last year 

 my brother had the pleasure of receiving from Mr. Jenner proof of the con- 

 tinued existence of one of the species described by Leguat as inhabiting 

 Rodriguez, but thought to have become extinct. This proof consisted of a 

 specimen preserved in spirit of an undescribed and very distinct Palaeornis, 

 which I have since described (' Ibis,' 187:2, p. 33) as P. exsul. Among the 

 bones sent by Mr. Jenner are, I believe, some which belonged to this bird. 

 But more remarkable and interesting still ai'e some remains which are 

 obviously those of a Ralline bird, unquestionably allied to Ocydromus, and 



• From the ' Report of the British Association for the AdTancement of Science ' 

 for 1873. Communicated by the author. 



