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Show 280 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON ANUROUS BATRACHIANS. [May 13, 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. Chrysococcyx lucidus. Phaps chalcoptera. Peristera elegans. Syncecus australis. diemenensis. Lobivanellus lobatus. Scolopax australis. Schceniclus australis. subarquatus. Rhyncheea australis. Herodias syrmatophorus. Nycticorax caledonicus. Grus australis. Botaurus australis. Platalea regia. Porphyrio melanotus. Fulica australis. Rallus pectoralis. Gallinula tenebrosa. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. Cygnus atratus. Cereopsis novce hollandiee. Anseranas melanoleuca. Bernicla jubata. Anas superciliosa. ncevosa. punctata. Malacorhynchus membranaceus. Biziura lobata. Nyroca australis. Sternula nereis. Pelicanus conspicillatus. Phalacrocorax carboides. leucoyaster. o>» /;i/im n-t-ni n OU.lLll UiSll lo • Podiceps australis. gularis. The following papers were read :- 1. On the Classification of the Anurous Batrachians. By ST. GEORGE MIVART. In June 1858 Dr. Gunther read a very valuable paper before the Zoological Society *, stating the principles according to which he was disposed to arrange, systematically, the Anurous Batrachians. The system therein offered is that adopted by the same author in his Catalogue of the Frogs and Toads contained in the British Museum f. In 1865 Mr. E. Cope gave to the world another and very different plan for arranging the same animals %, a plan which he has amended and further elaborated in papers published in the ' Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia' §. Dr. Giinther's system reposes mainly on external and readily ascertainable characters. Mr. Cope's system is founded on certain points of osteological detail. I venture here to propose a classification which is derived from, and in all the most important points agrees with, that of Dr. Giinther, but which differs from it in certain minor respects (owing to a different estimate of the value of certain points of structure), while * Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 339. t ' Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the British Museum,' by Dr. Albert Gunther. 1858. { Natural History Review, vol. v. 1865, p. 97. § Vol. vi. of the new series of that Journal, part 1, July 1866, p. 67, and part 2, September 1867, p. 189. |