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Show 686 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Nov. 6, fingers of about equal length ; third nearly double as long; carpus with a very large smooth tubercle; toes webbed ; metatarsus with two small tubercles ; no fold on the tarsus ; tympanum very small; parotoid elongate, rather indistinct, four times as long as broad. Body and belly covered with warty tubercles; the arms and legs quite spiny. Colour blackish brown ; the thighs, arms, and legs beautifully marbled with carmine ; the tubercles of the body often tipped with the same colour ; those of the belly often whitish. Length of body If inches, hind legs 2 inches. Hab. Travancore. A single specimen was captured, under an old rotten log, in dense moist forests, above the Ayen-Coil pass (Travancore), at about 2500 feet elevation; its nearest ally is the B. kelaartii, a Ceylonese species. In the same forest was captured a fine large species of Dendrophis, with almost exactly the coloration of Ptyas mucosa, and no trace of a yellowish lateral band ; the scales in fifteen rows, the vertical row very much enlarged and hexagonal, and the two next rows rather enlarged; but as the plates of the head are in every way quite similar to those of Dendrophis pictus, and it does not seem to differ from that species in any thing but coloration; I do not like to consider it a new species ; it is, however, a new variety, I think. 2. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines.- No. I. On the Collection made by M r . A. H . Everett in the Island of Luzon. By A R T H U R , Marquis of T W E E D D A L E , F.R.S., President of the Society. [Eeceived July 16, 1877.] (Plates LXXII. and LXXIII.) Mr. Everett, so favourably known as an able, energetic and zealous field-naturalist, and as one of the foremost explorers of the fauna of Borneo, arrived in the Island of Luzon in the beginning of this year, and, after overcoming the offici.il difficulties which sometimes obstruct scientific investigations in tne Philippine Islands, commenced collecting zoological specimens at Monte Alban and San Mateo, stations not far from Manilla. Among other objects Mr. Everett secured some 361 specimens of birds in part of the month of January, in February, and in the beginning of March, 1877. These he has kindly consigned to me ; and I propose to give an account of them, adding in each instance the original notes on the labels made bv Mr. Everett. Eighty-five species are represented in the collection ; and although the neighbourhood of Manilla might with justice be considered as having been exhausted by former collectors, Mr. Everett has discovered three undescribed species, besides adding many more to the already known Luzon, and a few to the Philippine avifauna. In my memoir on the Birds inhabiting the Philippine Archi- |