Introduction 
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pp. 172, 173 ; pi. ccxlix.). It is now classified as Palceornis 
eques . 1 
Another species which has likewise disappeared is the 
parrot long known as Coracopsis mascarinus , but named by 
Mr. W. A. Forbes (Ibis, 1879, p. 304) Mascarinus duboisi , 
in memory of our author Dubois, who described the 
present bird. 2 This Mascarin was existing in Bourbon 
when the Vicomte de Querhoent visited the island, in 
La Victoire , during 1773; whilst Mauduyt 3 mentions 
having seen several living Mascarins at Paris in 1784. 
Probably the last surviving single specimen was that 
figured by Hahn (Ornithol. Atlas , pi. 39) from one living 
in the Menagerie of the King of Bavaria as recently as 
1834. 4 This species is satisfactorily identified with the 
Parroquets described by Dubois, ‘ayant le plumage de 
couleur de petit gris, un chaperon noir sur la teste, le bee 
fort gros et couleur de feu.’ 
Yet another of the original Avifauna of Bourbon has 
been destroyed by the effects of colonisation in recent 
days. This is Le Bruant Mordore of Sonnini, well 
figured in the Planches Enluminees, No. 32, Fig. 2, by 
Daubenton, under the name of Le Bruant de Tile de 
Bourbon, and formerly styled simply the Mordore by 
Guenau de Montbeillard. It is now classified as Foudia 
bruante (P. L. S. Muller). 
Several other birds mentioned by Dubois can be 
tolerably well identified, and thus the testimony afforded 
by this voyager is of considerable value in determin¬ 
ing the native habitat of several species of the peculiar 
1 Vide Appendix C. 2 Vide Appendix D. 
3 Remarques faites par M. le Vicomte de Querhoent, a bord du vaisseau 
du roi la Victoire en 1 773 e t I 774 * 
4 Reunion had also, within the memory of men yet living, two peculiar 
genera, a parrot, Mascarinus and Fregilupus , perhaps allied to Falculia of 
Madagascar, and still more nearly to Necropsar of Rodriguez.’— Vide Article 
‘ Geographical Distribution,’ by Professor Newton, in A Dictionary of Birds, 
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