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Prof. Owen on a Species of Parrot 
EXPLANATION OF THE ENGRAVINGS [p. 156]. 
Fig*. 1 is a copy of Leguat’s engraving. 
Fig. 2. Tire same drawn in profile, and amended from Leguat’s descrip 
tion. 
Both birds represented ^th of the natural size. 
XV.— Evidence of a Species, perhaps extinct, of large Parrot 
(Psittacns mauritianus, Owen), contemporary with the Dodo, 
in the Island of Mauritius., By Prof. Owen, F.R.S., &c. 
In a paper on the bones of the Dodo, read before the Zoological 
Society of London, January 9th, 1866, I noted a part of the 
lower mandible of a large Psittacine bird in the enumeration 
of the series of bones which had been transmitted to me by Mr. 
George Clark from the Mauritius. 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
Under or outer view of gonys, 
Psittacus mauritianus, Ow. 
Natural size. 
Upper or inner view of gonys, 
Psittacus mauritianus, Ow. 
Natural size. 
This specimen (figs. 1 and 2) has the same deep olive-brown 
tint as most of the bones of the Dodo, and, from all its physical 
characters, has been evidently obtained under the same condi¬ 
tions ; it may therefore be confidently accepted as evidence of 
another, perhaps lost, certainly now unknown, species of bird, 
which formerly existed in the Island of Mauritius. Still, as in 
all probability the species of Parrot which the present solitary 
