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Show 1880.] MR. J. H. GURNEY ON DRYOTRTORCHIS SPECTABILIS. 621 7. NAJA TRIPUDIANS, Men*. Quetta. One specimen, of which only the head and tail were preserved. Careful comparison with Strauch's description of Naja oxiana, Eichwald, shows this specimen to belong to the Indian, and not to the Caspian species. 8. RANA ESCULENTA, L. Two specimens-one from Nal, the other from Baghunna, the latter so badly preserved that doubts about its identity with this or any other species may be entertained. 9. BUFO OLIVACEUS, Blanf. /. c. p. 434, pl. xxviii. f. 3. One specimen from Nal. The species appears to be well characterized by its exceedingly large parotoid glands. Blanford's specimens came from Baluchistan. Nos. 4, 5, and 9 clearly show that the country about Nal corresponds in detail with respect to its fauna to that of the last-named province. [The locality Nal, whence most of the species enumerated were obtained, is situated in the Mari country, nearly north of Jacobabad, in Sind (lat. 29° 30' N., long. 66° E.)\ The elevation above the sea is marked on the map as 2200 feet. Ras Malan, the nearest point to Nal, and whence Agamura cruralis and Acanthodactylus micropholis have been obtained, is 350 miles distant to the south-west, whilst the nearest localities from which Bufo olivaceus has hitherto been reported are nearly 500 miles from Nal in the same direction.- TV. T. Bi\ 4. Note on the Immature Plumage of Dryotriorchis spectabilis (Schleg.). By J. H . G U R N E Y . [Received November 16, 1880.] (Plate LVIII.) On October 8, 1880, I examined an immature specimen of a very scarce raptorial bird from the Gaboon country in Western Africa (Dryotriorchis spectabilis), which is living in the Gardens of this Society1, and which is so remarkably tame as to afford great facility for the inspection of its plumage. As this example differs considerably from the nearly adult specimen figured in the Nederl. Tijdsch. vol. i. pl. 6, as well as from the fully adult bird belonging to Captain Shelley and figured in 'The Ibis' for 1878, pl. 11, the following notes relating to it may perhaps be worth recording : - The irides are pale bright hazel; the eyelids and lore3 are pale bluish grey, the latter being bare, with the exception of numerous 1 The bird in question was obtained by purchase on June 30th, 1880, and entered erroneously in the List of Additions for June as Astur macrocelides.- P. L. S. |