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Show 516 DK. A. GUNTHER ON A Z O O L O G I C A L [June 23, green ; tail-feathers dark bluish green, glossy bronzy green on the outer aspect ; crown of head dingy brown with a very slight bronzy gloss, the forehead, lores, and base of cheeks ashy grey ; the ear-coverts, remainder of cheeks, throat, and fore neck dusky ashy, with a slight vinaceous tinge which is a little more pronounced on the breast and abdomen; the sides of the body, flanks, and thighs dark slaty grey with a greenish gloss ; under tail-coverts chestnut-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dark slaty grey ; quills light ashy underneath. Total length 16*5 inches, culmen from frontal plumes 0-85, wing 10*3, tail 6*8, tarsus 1"25. ARDEA JUGULARIS, Forster ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardea?, p. 25. A female in entirely white plumage. The legs are yellow, more dusky on the tarsus, which has a good deal of black. SULA PISCATRIX (L.) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Pelecani, p. 40. An adult female in full plumage. FREGATA AQUILA (L.) ; Schlegel, t.c. p. 2. An adult bird. An interesting note on the habits of the bird in the neighbourhood of Java is given, from the notes of the Vicomte de Bocarme, in Schlegel's 'Catalogue' (/. c). III. REPTILES. By G. A. BOULENGER. 1. GYMNODACTYLUS MARMORATUS, Kuhl. 2. LYGOSOMA NATIVITATIS, sp. n. Section Emoa. Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout long, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced between a nasal, a postnasal, and a supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with the rostral and with the frontal; latter shield nearly as long as the frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars; eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals united into a single large shield ; a small interparietal, behind which the parietals form a suture; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals; five labials anterior to the large subocular. Ear-opening oval, a little larger than the transparent palpebral disk, with three or four very small lobules on its anterior border. Thirty-four scales round the middle of the body, all smooth, lateral a little smaller than dorsal and ventral. No enlarged piaeanals. The hind limb reaches the elbow. Digits moderately elongate, a little flattened at the base, compressed at the |