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still in a fair state of preservation, though its wings and tail are 
rather damaged. On seeing it I was at once struck with several 
points in which it differed conspicuously from the other species 
usually placed in the genus Coracopsis; and after my return to 
England, at my request, Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards was 
kind enough to have life-sized sketches of the head and foot of 
this specimen made for me, which are here reproduced, all the 
figures we have of this species being more or less reduced in size. 
Head of Mascarinus duboisi 
As will be seen from the drawing, the beak in this species is very 
large and deep, not so compressed and elongated as in Psittacus 
or Coracopsis , but more like in shape that of a large-billed species 
of Tanygnathus or Palceornis. Moreover, the beak is red , as in 
most of the species of the two last-named genera; whereas in 
Psittacus or Coracopsis it is black, or dirty white. The head is 
fully feathered, the frontal plumes covering the cere, so that the 
nostrils are concealed by them. The lores also are fully feathered, 
and there is only a narrow circumorbital ring, and particularly in 
C. vasa , the lores are sparingly feathered. 1 
The feet differ from those of Coracopsis in their shorter and 
thicker tarso-metatarsi and shorter nails. [ Vide figs. 2, 3.] 
From these considerations, it is, I think, clear that the c Per- 
roquet mascarin ’ is not related closely to Coracopsis , but must be 
referred to another genus. . . . 
Lesson, in 1831 ( Traite d'Orn. p. 188), founded a genus Mas- 
carinus , characterised, amongst other things, by c narines cach'ees 
Dubois {cf. Ibis, 1876, p. 286) calls it ‘ couleur de feu ’ [vide Appendix C]. 
