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Show 84 BR. A. GUNTHER ON REPTILES AND [Jan. 16, passing into orange towards the white inner side (the difference between the red-brown and the orange being due to the circumstance that in the former case the bases of the hairs are ash-grey, in the latter white). The colour of the legs after Eidgway (Nomencl. Col.) is tawny (pi. v. fig. 1) with a wash of Chinese orange (pi. vii. fig. 15). Length of body 46 cm., tail ca. 60, height at shoulder ca. 32, height at hip ca. 35 cm. The appearance of the cranial sutures, the teeth, and the bones prove that the animal is not an old one, though it appears to have attained its full size. As it was brought over from Africa in the year 1887 and died in 1891, it was at least five years old. Skull.-Line from root of nose to upper jaw rather straight in profile, basis only of the nasal opening elevated; angle with the line of forehead about 30 degrees. Nasal opening elongated (7 X 16 mm.). Orbits round, projecting at their inner upper angle. Greatest length (gnathion to occiput) 94 mm.; basal length (basion to gnathion) 64-2 ; greatest (zygomatic) breadth 61-2; breadth of orbit 2 0 7 ; height of orbit 22*3; interorbital breadth 4-4; intertemporal constriction 42-2; brain-case-length 70-4, breadth 53-1, height (basilar suture to bregma) 43'9; combined length of upper premolars and molars 22-4, of molars only 15-8 ; length of palate 33-9, breadth at inside of m 2 17*1 ; free length of canine 15-7. Length of pelvis 106, breadth (il.) 61 : length of vertebral column ca. 290; length of tail ca. 540; humerus 116, ulna 125, radius 135, manus 96, femur 145, tibia 150, fibula 143, pes 140. 4. Report on the Collection of Reptiles and Fishes made by Dr. J. W . Gregory during his Expedition to Mount Kenia. By Dr. A . G U N T H E R , Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum. [Received January 12, 1894.] (Plates VIII.-XI.) Considering the difficulties Dr. Gregory bad to overcome in attending unaided to the various duties of' a scientific traveller, and the fact that the formation of zoological collections was but a secondary object of his expedition, we may be very well satisfied with the series of Eeptiles and Pishes which he was able to bring home. The Eeptiles are referable to 38 species, the majority being well-known forms of the Central East-African Fauna, but they nevertheless form a valuable contribution to our knoAvledge of the range of the several species, inasmuch as the collector took great care in noting the localities where the specimens were obtained, and |
