The Extinct Starling of Réunion (Fregilupus Varius)

Abstract

TIME alone can prove whether we are right in calling the Fregilupus an extinct species, for many people have imagined that the bird still exists in the interior forests of the Island of Réunion; but as year after year passes by and no specimens are discovered, we fear that we must class the starling of Réunion, along with the Dodo and other birds of the Mascarene Islands, as having been exterminated by the hand of man.