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(2) (a) Mauritius. 
+Lophopsitiacus mauritianus (Owen). 
*Paleornis eques (auctorum, sed qguere Bodd.?). 
(0) Reuntron. 
+ Coracopsis mascarinus (Linneus). 
+Paleornis eques (Boddaert). 
(3) RopRicuez. 
+Necropsittacus rodericanus, A. Milne-Edwards. 
{Paleornis exsul, A. Newton. 
It will be observed that we do not regard Psittacula cana, 
of which we may mention we have now seen specimens from 
Rodriguez, as indigenous to the Mascarene Islands. Its 
proper home is Madagascar; whence it has doubtless been 
introduced, though probably very many years ago. 
XXVIIT.—Notes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora. By 
Henry Sreesoum, F.Z.S., and Joun A. Harvie Brown. 
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(Plate VII.) 
EvupDROMIAS MORINELLUS (L.). 
The Dotterel is one of the species which we did not meet 
with during its migration, but which we afterwards found 
upon the tundra. We saw two pairs on the 26th June at 
Stanavoialachta, frequenting the low round hills on either 
side of the bay, and secured specimens. Judging from their 
actions, we do not think they had, at that time, begun 
to lay. 
ARGIALITIS HIATICULA (L.). 
The Ringed Plover was first noted by us at Ust Zylma on 
the 26th May. A few were seen and shot at Habariki; and 
they were found sparingly in suitable localities along the 
river to Gorodok, where they became rather more abundant, 
frequenting the sandy tongue of land opposite the town. At 
* Diminishing in numbers. ~t Extinct. { Barely surviving. 

