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cabinet of M. Mauduit (probably = M. J. E. de la Varenne 

 Mauduyt, who published two volumes on birds in London in 

 1784). 



7. Specimen seen by Levaillant in the collection of M. Eaye 

 at Amsterdam. Of this example nothing seems to be known, and 

 it has probably perished. The same remark applies to (8) speci- 

 men in cabinet of M. Gigot Dorey (9), of M. Poissonier (10), and 

 of the Abbe Aubrey, all of which are mentioned by Levaillant. 



11. An old specimen is preserved in the Leyden Museum. 



12. Another example (probably the one studied by Sundevall) 

 is in the collection at Stockholm. 



13. A Fregilupus was preserved in the museum of the late 

 Baron de Selys Longchamps, well known as a keen entomologist, 

 especially as regards Odonata. 



14. Another specimen is preserved at Caen. 



15. Examples are in the museums of Pisa (15), Genoa (16), 

 Turin (17), and Florence (18), being specimens given to Professor 

 Savi previous to 1873 by a Corsican priest named Lombardi. 

 Eetaining only one for the Pisa collection, Savi generously dis- 

 tributed the others amongst his less fortunate colleagues. 

 Assuming the birds to have been shot about 1860, these would 

 be amongst the last of their race. The two examples (19, 20) 

 added to the Port Louis Museum, Mauritius, should perhaps 

 also be ranked as such. 



21. In 1889 the collection of Count Eiocour, whose grand- 

 father had been an intimate friend of Vieiilot, was dispersed at 

 Vitry la Ville, near Chalons, owing to the death of the owner. 

 Most of the series became the property of M. A. Boucard, includ- 

 ing a Fregilupus mounted on a stand, afterwards obtained for 

 the British Museum. I remember this specimen as exhibited 

 many years ago in a special glass case at the Natural History 

 Museum. It has now been removed to the students' collection, 

 where I have again examined it. The only other example in 

 this country appears to be the skeleton (22) made by Jules 

 Verreaux from a bird which he shot in 1833, now in the Cam- 

 bridge Museum. A few feathers adhere to one leg, and the 

 orange covering of the mandibles has been partly retained. 

 Another skeleton (23) is said to be preserved at Paris. With 

 this statement is completed the history of the Beunion Starling. 



