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Show 312 DR. GADOW ON THE ANATOMY OF PTEROCLES. [Mar. 21, type of animal life the absence of which was characteristic of a particular district or region. This term he proposed should be ••Lipotvpe"1. . <„ Thus"the order Insectivora and the families Bovidse and Viverrida? were " lipotypes" of the Neotropical Region ; the Bears (Ursidas) and the Deer (Cervidse) of the .Ethiopian Region; and the Woodpeckers (Picidse) and Vultures (Vulturida?) of the Australian Region. The term was of course more specially required and more appropriate in cases where the " lipotype " was a form that might primdfacie have been expected to occur in the Region or district in question but was remarkable by its absence. Dr. Giinther, F.R.S., exhibited a flat skin of a very remarkable pale sandy-coloured variety of the Leopard (Felis pardus), from the Matabele* district, South Africa, and pointed out its superficial resemblance in colour to the Woolly Cheetah (Felis lanea, Sclater). Dr. Giinther also exhibited and made remarks upon the shell of a new Tortoise of the genus Geoemyda from Siam, which he proposed to describe as new at a subsequent meeting. Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited a specimen of a Goldfinch from Hungary, which had been sent to him by Dr. J. von Madarasz of the Museum of Buda-Pest, and which had been described by that gentleman as Carduelis elegans albigularis. Mr. Sharpe pointed out that a variety of the Goldfinch with a white throat was by no means unplentiful in England, and that a figure agreeing with the specimen now exhibited would be found in the late Mr. Dawson Rowley's 'Ornithological Miscellany' (vol. i. p. 91, fig. 3 in the plate). The following papers were read :- ]. On some Points in the Anatomy of Pterocles, with Remarks on its Systematic Position. By H A N S G A D O W, Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. [Eeceived February 18,1882.] Amongst the unfinished manuscripts of the late Prof. A. Brandt, in St. Petersburg, there were some notes by him preparatory to a discussion on the anatomical characters of the Pterocletes. His son, now Professor in Charkow, was good enough to put these notes into my bands, while others were distributed amongst those naturalists who specially interested themselves in the other different groups to which that distinguished naturalist had devoted some of his attention. The Society will see, therefore, that it was with peculiar Xe(7rw, dcficio, et rivos, forma. |