Necropsar leguati Forbes, 1898
White Mascarene starling, Leguat's starling
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Rogrigues
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Forbes, H. O. (1898). On an apparently new, and supposed to be now extinct, species of bird from the Mascarene Islands, provisionally referred to the genus Necropsar. Bull. Liverpool Mus. 1: 29-70.
Other references:
Cheke, A. S. (1987). An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates, pp. 5-89. In: Diamond, A. W. (ed.), Studies of Mascarene island birds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Fisher, C. T. (1981) Specimens of extinct, endangered or rare birds in the Merseyside County Museums, Liverpool. Bull. Brit. Ornithol. Club 101: 276-285.
Hachisuka, M. (1953). The Dodo and kindred birds, or the extinct birds of the Mascarene Islands. London (UK): HF & G Witherby. 250 pp.
Olson, Storrs L. et al. (2005). Expunging the ‘Mascarene starling’ Necropsar leguati: archives, morphology and molecules topple a myth. Bull. B.O.C. 125(1): 31-42.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 6, pl. 2]