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Show 1881.] MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON A NEW ANOLIS. 921 p. 211 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 532, note (1880); Hume, Str. F. 1880, pp. 234, 260 ; Butler, Cat. B. of South Bombay Pres. p. 43 (1880). The Indian Broad-tailed Reed-bird inhabits Southern India, and has been procured by Capt. Butler at Belgaum in 16° N. lat.; also by Jerdon in the Goodalore Ghat, Wynaad, 11° 30' N. lat.; again, in Southern Travancore, in 8° 30' N. lat. {.Bourdillon) ; and extends into Ceylon (spec, in Mus. Brit.), the exact locality being unknown, though Mr. Hume suggests about 7° N. lat. 2. SCHCENICOLA APICALIS. Sylvia apicalis, Licht. MS. in Mus. Berol., unde Catriscus apicalis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 43 (note); Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 323 ; id. Ibis, 1866, p. 140 ; Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 81 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 273, tab. ix. (1869); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 71; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 283 (1876). Bradypterus Brevirostris, Sundev. K. Vet.-Akad. Fdrh. Stockh. 1850, p. 483. Cettia apicalis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 29. Sphenoeacus alexina, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 166. Drymoica apicalis, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 96, no. 173 (1867); Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 201, no. 2833 (1869). Calamodyta Brevirostris, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 209, no. 2958 (1869). In North-eastern Africa the African Broad-tailed Reed-bird was met with by Heuglin in the vast grass-lands on the affluents of the Gazelle river. In South Africa it appears to be found only in Natal. 3. Description of a new Species of Anolis from Yucatan. By G. A. BOULENGER. [Eeceived October 28, 1881.] ANOLIS BECKERI, sp. n. Head moderate, much longer than the tibia, its width contained once and three fourths in its length. Snout convex, rounded, as broad as long, with rather indistinct canthus rostralis. No facial ruga3. Prefrontal concavity slightly marked. Nostril lateral, separated from rostral by a granule and a small scale. Front half of snout covered with granular, the remainder with moderate-sized hexagonal smooth scales. Canthal scales four. Superciliary semicircles formed of seven or eight large scales, in contact in the middle, or separated by only one row of narrow scales. Supraorbital disk with moderate-sized smooth scales, separated from superciliaries by two rows of granules. Occipital twice the diameter of ear-opening, surrounded with small irregular scales, and separated from superciliaries by two rows of scales. Three rows of loreal scales. 8-10 |