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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX IUSTITUTE. 



Vol. 19. Salem: Jan., Feb., March, 1887. Nos. 1-2-3. 



ON THE WEST INDIAN TEIIDiE IN THE MU- 

 SEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



BY SAMUEL GASMAN. 



The greater part of the collection on which this notice 

 is based was gathered for Professor Alexander Agassiz 

 by the writer. The balance was purchased by the Mu- 

 seum from Messrs. F. Lagois, C. S. Cazabon, Dr. D. F. 

 Wemland and others. As far as possible series wore ob- 

 tained, the better to enable one to fix upon the character- 

 istics of the varieties of a species inhabiting several of 

 the islands, or those of closely allied species from the 

 same or different localities. In the result the number of 

 Bpecies has been augmented, instead of reduced as was 

 expected. 



TUPINAMBIS NIGROPUNOTATU8 SjHX, 1825. 



Specimens from Trinidad apparently have the scales 

 Bomewhat larger and the femoral pores in greater num- 

 ber. The pores range from fourteen to seventcon. The 

 species is called "Matt" by the nativi 



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