144 South African Institution. 



and vent ferruginous ; bill, legs and toes light red ; claws dark 

 horn coloured. Length from point of hill to. extremity of tail 

 eight inches and a half. 



Inhabits the interior of South Africa. 



Halycon Senegaloidts. Upper and lateral parts of head 

 and of neck grey-green ; interscapulars and scapulars green ; 

 back a clear dark blue-g:reen ; shoulders and extremities of 

 wing feathers black, middle of wings deep blue-green, inner 

 vanes towards quills white ; tail blue-green ; throat, centre of 

 belly, and vent white ; breast and sides of belly greyish, bill 

 and legs deep red; space between eye and base of bill black. 

 Length nine inches. 



Inhabits the country about Port Natal. 



Edolius Ludwigii. Black with a shining green gloss, most 

 distinct on the upper par^s and the breast ; tail slightly forked ; 

 bill and legs black. Length seven inches. 



Inhabits the country about Port Natal, 



Lamprotornis rufiventris. Head brown with a faint purple 

 gloss; back, shoulders, throat, and breast, a shining coppery- 

 green, with a brownish tint ; wings brown, more or less glossed 

 with green, inner vanes of feathers white towards quills ; tail 

 deep shining green, belly and insides of shoulders ferruginous, 

 bill and legs reddish brown. Length eight inches. 



Inhabits the interior of South Africa. 



Class REPTILIA. 

 Order SAURIA. 

 Genus Brachydactylus. 

 Ch. Gen. — Head large and dilated behind ; above covered with 

 irregular-shaped scales ; ears concealed under the hinder edges of 

 cheeks; teeth conical and pointed, smell in front, and largebehind ; 

 tongue emarginate ; neck much narrower than head ; body depressed 

 and carinated above ; legs short, toes very short ; tail short and club- 

 shaped. Body and tail covered with imbricated scales, those on the 

 back and sides very large and irregularly shaped. 



Brachydactylus typicus. Colour of head clear yellow-brown, 

 back, sides, and upper-part of tail, dark red-brown variegated 

 with more or less distinct transverse yellow bands ; two 

 blackish blotches on each side of neck ; beneath, greenish yel- 

 low clouded with dark dusky green. Length from nose to base 

 of tail six inches ; length of tail two inches. 



Inhabits Australia, — about the Swan River, 



Dr. Smith remarked that, until he met with a second specimen 

 of this Lizard, he had considered the peculiar appearance of 

 the tail as depending upon its having been injured, but now he 

 M'as Batisfied from having minutely compared the two, that it 

 was the iiatural form. 



