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Show 1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 149 parts are uniform cinnamon like the rump and under surface. Mr. Layard and Mr. Gurney have overlooked these differences, and make the southern bird the same as the north-eastern." On this point I wish to observe that Riippell, in his 'Neue Wirbelth.' pl. 26. fig. 1, represents Thamnolcea albiscapulata with both the upper and under tail-coverts entirely cinnamomeous, and not black as in the specimens examined by Dr. Finsch. P. 318. ARDEA ATRICAPILLA (Afzel.). Dr. Finsch refers to an opinion which I expressed, and which was quoted in 'The Ibis' for 1869, p. 437, that this Heron is not separable from A. javanica, Horsf. I have subsequently had reason to alter m y views on this subject, as will be seen on reference to 'The Ibis' for 1870, p. 151, where I have expressed m y belief that the two races are specifically distinct. 3. O n some Indian Reptiles. By J O H N A N D E R S O N , M.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., & c , Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. [Received February 2, 1871.] The reptiles described in the following notes, with a few exceptions, have been added to the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, within the last five months. As some are recent additions to the Indian fauna, while others belong to little-known species, I have given a full description of each, and have taken, as far as possible, Dr. Giinther's work on the reptiles of India as m y guide. When the synonyms of a species are not given it is to be understood that they are accepted as defined by Gunther. lt will be observed that a number of Mr. Blyth's types of Batra-chia in the Indian Museum have been identified. These are of peculiar interest, as Mr. Theobald was under the impression when he drew up his catalogue of the reptiles in the Asiatic Society's Museum that they had disappeared from the collection. As the majority of the specimens from which the descriptions were derived reached m e very shortly after the reptiles had been collected, it was in m y power to describe the coloration almost as it occurs during life; and from the circumstance, too, that the collections were made on a very large scale, and embraced a very extended series of duplicates, I have been in a position to indicate many variations of species hitherto unrecorded. List of Species described in the following pages. CHELONIA. FMYDID.F*. I. Pangshura teda, Gray. Jumna, Agra. |