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Hab. In Charles Island (Galapagos). Typical specimen in the 
Collection of the British Museum. 
Description.—The head is rather depressed, flat, and, like the 
trunk and tail, somewhat elongate ; the eye is of moderate size, with 
the pupil round. The rostral does not reach to the upper surface 
of the snout; the anterior frontals are square, the posterior ones 
about twice the size and subquadrangular ; the vertical is rather 
slender, twice as long as broad ; the occipitals triangular and rather 
pointed posteriorly. The nostril is situated between two shields ; 
the loreal nearly square; the anterior ocular extends to the upper 
surface of the head, and is in contact with the vertical. There are 
three posterior oculars, the middle of which is the smallest, the in- 
ferior forming a part of the lower portion of the orbit ; the temporal 
shields are scale-like and rather irregularly arranged. There are 
eight upper labials, the fourth and fifth coming into the orbit. The 
median lower labial is triangular, and of moderate size ; ten lower 
labials, the first of which is in contact with its fellow, behind the 
median shield. There are two pairs of elongate skin-shields of equal 
size. The scales are perfectly smooth, in nineteen rows, rhombic, 
those of the outer series being rather larger. Ventral plates 209 ; 
anal bifid; caudals 108. 
The ground colour is a light brownish-grey: a vertebral band, 
formed by dark brown spots, begins from the occiput, and is gra- 
dually lost on the middle of the tail; it is continuous anteriorly, and 
serrated on both sides, but gradually dissolved into two series of 
brown spots, the spots of each series being confluent on the end of 
the trunk ; there is a dark brown streak across the temple. The 
belly is greyish, and finely and irregularly speckled with brown. 
inches. lines. 
Dotal Jeno ie ts am bp idian.- acre a alps sis 14 3 
Length of the head ............ SE ie 
Greatest width of the head ........ 0 3 
Length of the trunk .............. 10 0 
Length of the tail ........ eeeere-- 3 10 
The maxillary teeth are of moderate size, of nearly equal length, 
in a continuous series, and entirely smooth. 
February 14, 1860. 
John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
Dr. Shortt, F.Z.S., made some remarks on the Civet-cats of India, 
and the native method of extracting the perfume. 
Dr. Crisp exhibited two stuffed specimens of the Cock of the 
Rock (Rupicola eroeea) which had been brought alive to and had 
died in this country. 
