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Show 628 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON [DeC. 1, station in Europe. An example of the Mealy Redpoll (Fringilla linaria) was caught on the 14th of September, 1890 ; a Lesser White-throat (Sylvia curruca) was caught seventeen days later ; a Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus superciliosus) after a further interval of fourteen days ; and a Red-breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapaparva) six days later still. In the meantime, on the 11th of October in the same year, the fifth specimen exhibited had been caught at the Black Rock Lighthouse in County Mayo, and proved to be a Short-toed Lark (Alauda brachydactyla). Mr. W . B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on an abnormal growth of the bill of a Rook (Corvus frugilegus), and on the head of a Pheasant with the upper mandible entirely wanting, which had been forwarded to him by Mr. E. L. Layard, F.Z.S. The following papers were read :- 1. Notes on Transcaspian Reptiles. By G. A. BOULENGER. [Received October 28,1891.] Since the publication, in 1888, of Dr. Boettger's excellent account of the herpetological results of the Radde-Walter Expedition to Transcaspia \ the British Museum has acquired, partly through the kind mediation of Dr. Boettger himself, a large number of Reptiles from the same district, which enable m e to supplement the above work and to add six species which have not been recorded before from the Russian Empire. The fact of the occurrence so far west of the Indian species Eumeces scutatus, Lycodon striatus, and Dipsas trigonata is of great interest, as is also the rediscovery of Ophiomorus brevipes, hitherto known from a single specimen preserved in the Calcutta Museum. The material upon which these notes are based consists of the following series:- 1. The first set of duplicates of Dr. Radde's collection, 30 specimens, including types of Phrynocephalus raddii, Bttg. Received in 1888. 2. 22 specimens from Ashabad, collected by M . C. Eylandt. Received in 1890. 3. 28 specimens from Ashabad and Tedshen, near Merv. Received in exchange from the Warsaw Museum in 1890. 4. 7 specimens obtained by M . P. A. Warentzoff at Ashabad. Received in 1891. 5. 20 specimens from Bokhara, the Copet Dagh near Ashabad, Achal, and Alexandrowski. Received in exchange from M . P. Nazaroff, 1891. 1 " Die Reptilien und Batrachier Transkaspiens," Zool. Jahrb. iii 1888 pp. 871-972, pi. xxxiv. |