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lias figured a species, M. aterrimum (Gmelin), now inhabiting 
New Guinea, and Cape York on the northern coast of Australia, 
in the Supplement to his work on the Birds of Australia. 
My colleague Mr. George R. Gray has kindly called my 
attention to the Cockatoo figured under the name of “ Perro- 
quet Mascarin by Levaillant in his f Histoire des Perroquets/ 
vol. ii. pi. 139 (fol., 1805). 
In the text Levaillant remarks :—“ Le Mascarin se trouve a 
Madagascar et meme, assure-t-on, a File de Bourbon. II est 
encore tres-rare dans nos cabinets; du moins n*y ai-je vu que 
trois de ses individus, dont Fun chez Mauduit, Pautre chez 
Fabbe Aubry, et le troisieme au Museum d’histoire naturelle a 
Paris ” (p. 112). 
So far as can be judged from the coloured plate of the bird, 
the lower mandible appears to have the same angular shape 
transversely, at the lower part of its base, as is manifested by 
, the Mauritian gonys (fig. 1) ; but it is inferior in size. The 
Psittacus pachyrhynchus of West Africa exemplifies also a 
similar proportion and form of beak, but is likewise on a smaller 
scale. 
I think I may venture to add the Psittacus mauritianus to 
the list of species of birds of the island of the Dodo, and anti¬ 
cipate with confidence that materials will one day be obtained 
enabling the ornithologist to determine the subgeneric section 
of Psittacidce to which this large Cockatoo may belong. Enough 
is given, even by the solitary fragment described, to show that 
it has nearer affinities to Old World forms (African and Austra¬ 
lasian) than to the New World Maccaws. 
XYI.— On Five New Species of Birds from the Feejee Islands . 
By Gustav Hartlaub, M.D., Eor. Mem. Z.S., &c. 
1. Rallina pceciloptera. 
Supra obscure rufo-fusca, subtus obscure plumbea; mento et 
gula albidis; genis brunneis; fascia brevi poneoculari plum¬ 
bea ; subalaribus nigris, albo maculatis ; remigibus ferrugi- 
neis, fasciis angustioribus nigris transversim notatis, primi 
* [Mascarinus madcigascariensis, Lesson.—E d.] 
