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Show 94 MR. G. NEVILL ON THE [Feb. 17, Hamburgi, d. xxi. October, 1793, auctionis lege distrahendarum,' with preface by M. Ant. Aug. Hen. Lichtenstein, Rector der Johannis-Schule, Berlin. A copy of the latter catalogue exists in the Banksian Library; and in it the Western Crowned Crane is included under the generic name of Ardea, and the Kaffir Crane is described as follows :- " 284 A. !! Ardea chrysopelargus, nobis. Ardea oculorum area nuda ; corpore supra item collo et pectore ex fusco ceneo ; subtus albo. Rostrum fere 10 pollices longum rubrum basi exalbidum. Nares lineares ultra 4 pollices longce, mandibulam superiorem in medio quasi sulco pervio dirimunt. Gence et collum purpureo nitore fulgent, reliquum corpus, quatenus ex ceneo fuscum est viridi splendore renidet. Remiges nigrce ; rectrices supra sunt tenece, infra ut venter et crissum albent. Pedes 29 pollices longi, pallide rubri. Digiti antici basi palmati, posticus brevis terram tamen attigens. Longitudo universa 4 pedum 6| pollicum. Habitat in terra Cafrorum." Consequently it appears that, if the rules of the usually accepted code of nomenclature are to be carried out, the name of this species must be changed from B. regulorum to Balearica chrysopelargus (Licht.)-the meaningless name regulorum being apparently, as suggested by Mr. Sclater, a corruption of the term oculorum in A. A. H. Lichtenstein's description. 5. On the Land-Shells, extinct and living, of the Neighbourhood of Menton (Alpes Maritimes) ; with Descriptions of a new Genus and of several new Species. By G E O F F R E Y NEVILL, C.M.Z.S.* [Eeceived February 13, 1880.] (Plates XIII., XIV.) I cannot do better than commence by acknowledging, in the warmest manner, the great obligation I am under to two gentlemen for their cordial assistance and cooperation in collecting and determining the material of this paper. In the first place m y thanks are due to m y friend Mr. T. B. Coombe Williams, M.A., who during the winter and spring of 1878-1879 was good enough to collect for me the land-shells living on the high peaks of the Alpes Maritimes surrounding Menton, where I was unable to go myself on account of my health, and to whom also I owe the discovery of the first Acme foliniana, Daudebardia isseliana, &c, as well as of many of the spots where we afterwards together collected the interesting extinct land-shells, to describe which is m y principal object in writing this paper. To m y distinguished friend Monsieur J. Rene Bourguignat, the well known author of numerous papers on the faunas, extinct and living, of the Quaternary Epoch, my best thanks are also due * Communicated by Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.Z.S. |