Appendices 143 
name by Buffon, 1 Daubenton, 2 Latham, 3 and in a particularly 
exact manner by Levaillant, 4 5 who was wrong, however, in indi¬ 
cating Madagascar, rather than the island of Bourbon, as being 
the country of this species. Misled by this indication, Lesson, 
in his Traite d’Ornithologies imposed the name of madagascari- 
ensis on the Mascarin Parrot, which he took for the type of a 
particular genus, the genus Mascarinus , which was adopted by 
Ch. L. Bonaparte 6 in his Conspectus Avium , by G. Hartlaub in 
his Syst. Uebersicht der Vogel Madagascans , 7 and more recently 
by W. A. Forbes 8 and by T. Salvadori. 9 This last has desig¬ 
nated the species under the name of Mascarinus mascarinus, 
whilst Forbes has substituted for the denomination madagascari- 
ensis which consecrates an erroneous habitat, the specific name 
of Duboisi , derived from that of the French traveller of whom we 
shall speak further on. On the contrary, Finsch, 10 Pelzeln, 11 and 
Giebel, 12 * who leave the Mascarin in the old genus Psittacus , pre¬ 
serve for it the defective name of MadagascariensisA 
Alfred and Edward Newton 14 associated the Mascarin with the 
Vazas of Madagascar, and made it simply a species of the 
genus Coracopsis , as Wagler, 15 Pelzeln, 16 Hartlaub, 17 and G. R. 
Gray, 18 had previously done, and as, later, one of us 19 did, although 
with certain reservations. 
[Then follows a minute, detailed, scientific description of the 
species, taken principally from the celebrated example of the 
1 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1779, t. vi. p. 120. 
2 Planches Enluminees de Buffon, No. 35. 
3 Synopsis, 1781, t. i. p. 265, No. 72, and Getter. History, 1882, t. ii. 
p. 113 (with var. A.). 
4 Histoire naturelle des Perroquets, 1805, t. ii. p. 171, and pi. 139. 
5 P. 189, No. 24 (1831). 6 T. i. No. 7 (1850). 
7 P. 107, and Ornith. Beitrdge zur Fauna Madagascars, 1861, p. 59. 
8 Ibis, 1879, p. 306. [ Vide ante Appendix D.] 
9 Catalogue of Birds in Brit. Mus. t. xx., Psittaci, 1891, p. 421. 
10 Papageien, 1868, t. ii. pp. 306 and 955. 
11 Ibis, 1873, p. 32. 
12 Thesaurus ornithologicus, 1877, t. iii. p. 340. 
13 In note in his Conspect. Papageien, t. ii. p. 955, Finsch uses the term 
Mascarinus. 
14 Ibis, 1876, p. 289. 15 Monogr. Psittacorum, 1832, p. 679. 
16 Verhandl. z. b. Gesells. Wien, 1863, p. 232. 
17 Die Vogel Madagascars, 1877, p. 232. 
18 Genera of Birds, 1846, t. ii. p. 407. 
19 E. Oustalet, Etude sur la Faune ornithologique des Seychelles Bull , Soc. 
philom., 1878, 7 e serie, t. ii. p. 165. 
