CJIen. Hai'dwicke and Mr. Gray on Saurian Reptiles^ SfC. 213 



Mr. Leadbeater is so liberal towards the lovers of science, I beg 

 leave to introduce it in its proper place, as one of the chief orna- 

 ments of the North American Fauna. 



Genus. Tetuao, L. 

 Sub-genus. Tetrao, Nob. 



Tetrao urophasianus. — Head smooth : primaries unspotted : 

 toes strongly pectinated : tail subcuneiform, of twenty narrow 

 tapering feathers. 



Male black? Female grey, mottled. 



Inhabits the North Western countries beyond t^ie Mississippi^ 

 especially on the Missouri. 



Size of the T. urogallus^ whiclpi species it represents in th« 

 New Continent. 



Art. XXII. A Si/nopsis of the Species of Saurian 

 Reptiles^ collected in India hy Major-General Hard-!- 

 w 1 c K E ; By Major- General H a r d w i c k e, jP.i2. <Sr i. 5., 

 «wrfj. E. Gray, jP.G.S. 



The Reptiles which are described in the following pages are 

 part of the collection of animals, formed by Major-General 

 Hardwicke while on duty in various parts of India, where he had 

 them figured while alive, generally by native artists, so as to in-- 

 dicate their natural colours and habits. 



Specimens of most of these Reptiles have been brought to Ihis 

 country, and on their being compared with the drawings, it was 

 found that every scale must have been counted, and the length 

 and breadth of qxgtj part taken by actual admeasurement. We 

 have thus reason to place great reliance on the accuracy of the 

 drawings of those species, of which specimens had not been 

 brought home ', so much so, as to induce us to indicate and de;- 



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