34 APPENDIX : NOS. XXXV.—XXXVI. 
XXXV. 
OccurRENCE oF Burron’s Sxua (Lesrers Burroniz) 
IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE. 
[‘ Zoologist,’ vil. (1849) p. 2892.] 
A srectMEN of Buffon’s Skua was shot in the parish of St. Neots, 
Huntingdonshire, in October, 1848, after a very windy night: it was 
sitting in an arable field, very tame. It is now in the possession of 
the gentleman who shot it, G. D. Rowley, Esq., of the Priory, 
St. Neots, who has kindly communicated these particulars. 
3 Roxburgh Terrace, Edinburgh, 
January 8, 1849. 
ok VE: 
Some Remarks on British AMPHIBIA. 
(* Zoologist,’ vill. (1850) pp. 2655-2658. ] 
Triton Bibronii, Bell. 
Mr. Newman (Zool. 2576) hopes that his readers will express their 
opinions upon Mr. Bell’s Newt, Triton Bibroni. I find that I said 
(Zool. 2267) before the appearance of the new edition of the ‘ British 
Reptiles,’ * “ But it is not only the Lissotriton palmipes of Mr. Bell 
that he has to re-establish in the new edition of his ‘ Reptiles’: it 
is to be hoped that he will give further characters of his Triton 
Bibronii and of Rana Scotica.’ At the time I wrote I had reason 
to suppose that Mr. Bell still believed in his own L. palmipes, for he 
had not long before informed me that he had recently received some 
specimens of it; nor did I know that he had changed his opinion 
with respect to his Rana Scutica, of which I had the pleasure of 
sending him a number; at the same time I entertained little doubt 
that on seeing a series of them he would pronounce them to be a 
variety ; for I had been unable to detect any specific difference, 
although I had no undoubted Common Frogs at hand wherewith to 
compare them. In the case of these two amphibians, Mr. Bell has 
avoided the necessity of giving further characters, by very properly 
cutting out the species altogether; but Triton Bibronii he still 
retains, without one word additional to the description in the first 
edition. The specific character is given [p. 140} as follows :— 
“The same as 7’. cristatus, excepting that the upper lip is perfectly straight, 
meetin the lower, and not overhanging it. The skin, and particularly that of 
the head, much more rugous and more strongly tuberculated. Colour darker.” 
It is afterwards [ p. 141] said, 
, “The tubercle at the base of the inner toe on each foot is much smaller, and in 
some cases scarcely perceptible.” 
1 [Published in 1849: the first edition was completed in 1839.—Ep. | 
