ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OP THE MASCARENE ISLANDS. 



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The new elements 

 errors 



of theory have therefore lessened the probable 



Berlin, February 29th, 1872. 



Second Supplementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene 

 Islands. By Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. 



The small portion of the grant so liberally voted by the Association 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 

 vcar or so been employed by him in a renewed examination of the caves in 

 the island of Rodriguez, which had already produced so much of interest. 



