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    Mauritius (category Mascarene Islands)
    along with nearby Réunion (a French overseas department), are part of the Mascarene Islands. The main island of Mauritius, where the population is concentrated...
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    Bourbon crested starling, is a species of starling that lived on the Mascarene island of Réunion and became extinct in the 1850s. Its closest relatives...
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  • Flore des Mascareignes (category Flora of the Mascarene Islands)
    (Fl. Mascar.) is a flora, in French, covering the three islands in the Mascarenes: Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues. The project began in 1970 with the...
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    group. This taxonomy is also based on the order of the IOC. The extinct Mascarene starlings were formerly of uncertain relationships, but are now thought...
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    Fuyuan; Brook, G. A.; Voarintsoa, Ny Riavo G.; Sletten, Hillary R.; Marais, Eugene; Hardt, Ben; Cheng, Hai; Edwards, R. Lawrence (15 April 2018). "The timing...
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    central Asia Diogo Fernandes Pereira Portuguese 15th/16th Madagascar, Mascarenes (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues) Duarte Pacheco Pereira Portuguese...
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  • commentary on Lophostica et Pseudemathis, two jumping spider genera from the Mascarene Islands (Araneae: Salticidae)", Genus, 16: 527–536 "Gen. Lophostica Simon...
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    1892 Mauritius cyclone (category Tropical cyclones in the Mascarene Islands)
    rebuild damaged churches. Tropical cyclones portal Tropical cyclones in the Mascarene Islands Cyclone Hollanda (1994) – another strong tropical cyclone that...
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    peninsula was Kespek (meaning "last-acquired"). Nicholas, Andrea Bear. "Mascarene's treaty of 1725". University of New Brunswick Library Journals. Patterson...
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    Rodrigues named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands, after Mascarenhas. 1513—The first European trading ship to touch...
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  • (1919–1942), German Luftwaffe ace, penitent for the killings he committed. Paul Mascarene (1684–1760), French-born British army officer. Peter Mawney, colonel,...
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    Reunionese Creoles who settled in New Caledonia between 1864 and 1880 when the Mascarene Islands entered a period of economic crisis linked with droughts and diseases...
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  • Johannesburg 1974 12 Apr 1865 extant South Africa Cape Town Zimbabwe Harare Mascarene Islands Madagascar Antananarivo Mozambique Maputo South Africa Pretoria...
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    mortality rate among slaves shipped from India and West Africa to the Mascarene Islands at 20–25% and 25–30%, respectively. Average mortality rates among...
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    the time) French possessions, as well as colonies in the West Indies, Mascarene islands and Africa. On 30 December 1687, a community of French Huguenots...
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    written — — Great Barrier Reef species 1976, 1977 Mauritius and other Mascarene Islands Two back-to-back conservation missions and animal collecting expeditions...
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    multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands". Science Advances. 6 (42): 1–13. Bibcode:2020SciA....6.2459L...
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    the eastern Pacific. It later intensified into Tropical Storm Eugene. However, Eugene began to quickly weaken after nearly reaching hurricane status...
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    Conservation Association". Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Hunn, Eugene S. (1982). Birding in Seattle and King County. Seattle Audubon Society....
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  • slave girls, reunite. Soon after, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueroa y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza, the governor of the city, falls in love with Maximilian...
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    6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4. McCarthy, Eugene M. (2006). Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World. Oxford University Press...
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    Morocco, Sudan, the Sahara, Niger), the Canary Islands, Seychelles and Mascarene Islands. He assembled important collections of insects during his voyages...
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    Barbary, and among the islands of Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius, and the Mascarenes, to take possession of them in the name of France. On the advice of Jesuit...
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    Antarctica: their distribution also extends to the High Seas, such as on the Mascarene Plateau. Seagrasses are formed by a polyphyletic group of monocotyledons...
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    (South Baikal Territory)". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 62: 1541–1546. Oates, Eugene W. (1890). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London:...
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    – dabbling ducks or Tadorninae? Genus Alopochen - Egyptian goose and Mascarene shelducks Genus Amazonetta - Brazilian teal Genus Anas - pintails, mallards...
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    genus now contains 25 species: Seychelles swiftlet, Aerodramus elaphrus Mascarene swiftlet, Aerodramus francicus Indian swiftlet, Aerodramus unicolor Philippine...
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    Territory)". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 62 (10): 1541–1546. Oates, Eugene W (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds...
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    Chikita and Tropical Cyclone Davina brought beneficial rainfall to the Mascarene Islands. The latter storm caused two drowning deaths on Réunion and caused...
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    short-lived tropical storm. 1979 – a weak tropical storm moved around the Mascarene Islands, with a peak rainfall total on Réunion recorded at Petite Plaine...
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