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correspondent of Buffon, and subsequently by Mauduyt, who 
says expressly, ‘ They find the Mascarin at lie Bourbon; I have 
seen many of them living at Paris, they were very gentle birds; 
they were only attractive on account of their red beak, which 
contrasted agreeably with their dark plumage; they had not 
learnt to speak.’ 
The authors then state their agreement with the statements of 
Messrs. Newton, 1 identifying the ‘Perroquets plus gros que 
Pigeons,’ etc., of Du Bois with the Mascarin, and conclude 
thus:— 
‘ It results from this discussion that the Mascarinus Duboisi 
probably did not inhabit Madagascar, but that it certainly in¬ 
habited the island of Reunion, where it must have lived up to 
the end of the last century, possibly even to the first years of our 
century, and that it was represented in the island of Mauritius by 
an allied form, the Lophopsittacus mauritianus. 
These two species offer, as we have seen, incontestable affinities 
with the Microglossi and the Tanygnathi, and on the contrary 
differ in many respects from the Coracopsis, and still more from 
the African Parakeets. They consequently furnish new proofs in 
favour of the opinion, so often expressed, that the avifauna of 
the Mascarene Islands is not directly attached to that of the 
neighbouring continent, but offers rather Asiatic and Oceanic 
characteristics. 
The Huppe du Cap ( Fregilupus varius). Planche 11. 
In the Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux of Buffon, 2 Gueneau de 
Montbeillard described, under the name of Huppe noire et blanche 
du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, a species which he placed near to 
the Hoopoe of Europe, at the same time stating that it differed 
from this last by its longer beak, by its crest formed of feathers 
shorter and attenuated like those of the crested Cuckoo of 
Madagascar, 3 4 by its tail, composed of twelve feathers only, by its 
elongated tongue, pointed at the extremity, and by its white and 
brown livery. He assigned to it for habitat, Madagascar, He 
Bourbon, and the Cape of Good Hope. Soon afterwards, in the 
Planches enluminees de Bujfonp Daubenton gave a figure of the 
1 Ibis , 1876, p. 286. 2 Edit. 1779, t. vi. p. 463. 
3 Probably the Coiia cristata , L. (A. Milne-Edwards et Alf. Grandidier, 
Histoire phys ., nat. etpolit. de Madagascar , Oiseaux , p. 143, et pi. 44). 
4 T. vi. pi. 697. 
