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Name</p> </td> <td width="60%" height="19"> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%"> <p>French Name</p> </td> <td width="60%"> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%"> <p>Local French Name</p> </td> <td width="60%" height="22"> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%"> <p>Creole Name</p> </td> <td width="60%">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" height="16"> <p>Habitat</p> </td> <td width="60%" height="16"> <p> Terrestrial; Freshwater</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%"> <p>Geographic Range</p> </td> <td width="60%"> <p>Mauritius, Mascarene Islands</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%"> <p>Status</p> </td> <td width="60%" height="22"> <p>Extinct 1693</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%"> <p>First Description</p> </td> <td width="60%"> <p>Newton & Gadow, 1893</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="98%" border="0"> <tbody class="ArialBlack"> <tr bgcolor="CC0033"> <td colspan="2" valign="middle" align="left" class="Trafiletto" height="20"> <a name=contents>Classification</a> </td> </tr> <tr valignment="top"> <td width="62"> <p> Kingdom<br> Phylum<br> Sub phylum<br> Class<br> Sub class<br> Super order<br> Order<br> Family<br> Sub-Family <br> Genus<br> Species</p> </td> <td width="163" valign="top"> <p> <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/animalia.html" target="_blank">Animalia</a><br> <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata.html" target="_blank">Chordata</a><br> <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/vertebrata.html" target="_blank">Vertebrata</a> <br> <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/aves.html" target="_blank">Aves</a><br> <br> <br> <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/aves/columbiformes.html" target="_blank">Ciconiiformes</a><br> <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/aves/columbiformes/raphidae.html" target="_blank">Arbeidae</a><br> <br> <br> Nycticorax mautitianus</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top colspan=2></td> <td width="330" valign="top"> <p>Mauritius Night-Heron Nycticorax mauritianus was described from seven fossil bones (of which only a coracoid and a tarsometatarsus are available today), from Mauritius. </p> <p>Leguat's description of  great flights of bitterns in 1693 probably refers to this species, given that the only two other species of Ardeidae known from the island are Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha and Green Heron Butorides striatus, which could in no way be described as  bitterns .</p> </td> <td valign=top colspan=2></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top colspan=2></td> <td width="330" valign="top"> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <div align="right"><a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1)"><img src="/Images/red-arrowleft.gif" width="6" height="6" border="0">&nbsp;Back</a></div> </td> <td> <div align="right"><a href="#Top"><img src="/Images/red-arrowrup.gif" width="8" height="8" 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