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LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE JIASCARENE ISLANDS. 
(APPENDIX TO THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.) 
LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE MASCARENE ISLANDS, 
INCLUDING THE SEYCHELLES. 
t Signifies that the species is extinct. 
*1T „ „ peculiar, i.e. not found elsewhere. 
§ „ „ of accidental occurrence. 
N.B. — Several more species are indicated hy other writers as being found 
in one or the other of the Mascarene Islands, and in most cases apparently 
in good faith ; but in the absence of positive evidence which may lead to 
their scientific determination, it has been thought advisable to omit them 
from this list. It is to be hoped that subsequent investigations may bring 
to light the remains of at least some of them. 
Quality 
Name. 
La Reunion 
Mauritius 
Rodrigues 
Uj 
o 
% 
o 
<D 
Other places 
within the 
range. 
PASSERES. 
Sturnid^e. 
+ IT 
Fregilupus varius (Boddaert) 
X 
t IT 
N ecropsar rodericanus, H. H. SI ater 
X 
Ploceid/b. 
t IT 
Foudia bruante (P. L.S. Muller) 
X 
,, erythrocephala (Gmelin) 
X 
IT 
„ flavicans, A. Newton 
X 
IT 
,, sechellarura, E. Newton 
X 
NECTARINIIDiE. 
IT 
Nectarinia dussumieri, Hartlaub 
X 
Zosteropid/B. 
IT 
Zosterops borbonica (Boddaert) 
X 
IT 
,, e.-newtoni, Hartlaub'’*^ 
X 
IT 
,, mauritiana (Gmelin) 
X 
IT 
„ niodesta, E. Newton 
X 
IT 
„ olivacea (Linnteus) 
X 
IT 
„ chlorophtea, Hartlaub 
X 
IT 
„ semidava, E. Newton 
X 
* Mr. Sharpe refuses to admit the validity of this species (cf. 13. Brit. Mus. 
vol. ix. pp. 195, 196) ; but extraordinary as it may be that two nearly-allied 
species should exist in one small island, he does not explain the discrepancy 
of size noticed by Dr. Hartlaub, who in describing the present had a far 
larger series of specimens before him than, it appears, Mr. Sharpe had. 
