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Messrs. A. and E. Newton on the Psittaci 
Here it is to be remarked that the specific term eques, 
conferred by Boddaert on the subject figured in the c Planches 
Enluminees - ’ (No. 215), properly belongs to the Parrakeet of 
Reunion—the bird there represented being called “ Perruche 
de Vile de Bourbon ” whence De Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 
p. 144) expressly says it was brought, identifying it also with 
the Perruche a collier de VIsle de Bourbon )} of Brisson (Orn. 
iv. p. 328, pi. xxvii. fig. 1), who likewise states that it is found 
there. It now no longer inhabits Reunion, and whether a 
specimen from that locality anywhere exists is not known to 
us. Judging from the general dissimilarity of the avifauna 
of that island and of Mauritius*, we should be inclined to 
suppose that each had its peculiar Palceornis ; and, in the 
event of this being found to be* the case, we would venture to 
suggest the term echo j* t)eing applied to the Mauritian bird, 
which, no doubt, answers in nearly all particulars to the true 
eques. 
It has just been stated that the Palceornis is extinct in Re¬ 
union. That island, indeed, is at present destitute of any 
indigenous Parrot; for though M. Maillard Notes sur Pile 
de la Reunion/ p. 162) includes Coracopsis vasa as being 
found there, it has obviously been introduced thither from Ma¬ 
dagascar X . But Parrots there were once, and of several species, 
* The only indigenous species of Land-birds common to the two islands 
are, we believe, Collocoliafrancica , Phedina borbonica and Tchitrea borbonica. 
The Hypsipetes, the Oxynotus , and all the species of Zosterops are distinct. 
The original Foudia of Reunion {Emberiza borbonica, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 
p. 886, founded on the Mordore of De Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 366, 
PI. Enl. 321. fig. 2) we have never seen, the species now found in the 
island being F. madagascariensis, believed to be an importation. 
t ’Hycb, nympha quiedam, imitatrix equitis —sc. Narcissi. Ov. Metam. 
iii. 380. 
% The introduction of the other species of Coracopsis seems also to have 
been once effected; for in the ‘ Voyage dans les quatre principals iles des 
mers d’Afrique ’ of Bory de St. Vincent, performed in 1801 and 1802, 
where the author is telling of an excursion in Reunion, we have this pas¬ 
sage (i. pp. 350, 351):—“ Nous nous etions arret^s un instant pour tuer 
des merles (_. Hypsipetes borbonicus, of course], dont nous trouvions une 
prodigieuse quantite, lorsque j’entendis quelques sifflemens aigres, que 
notre guide me dit etre ceux d’une espece de perroquet noir ; nous nous 
