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NOTICE 



TWO LARGE EXTIJVCT LIZARDS 



FORMERLY INHABITING THE MASCARENE ISLANDS 



By Dr A. GUNTHEH, F.R.S., F.Ii.S. 



Keeper of the Zooloozical Department, British Museum. 



I. — During an examination of remains of Birds and 

 Clielonians from the Mauritius, especially the Mare aux 

 Songes, the locality famous for its yield of Dodo bones, 

 I recognized in some fragments parts of the skeleton of a 

 Lizard. They were not numerous, and cousisted of a 

 short fragment (with three teeth) of the maxilla, five 

 fragments of the mandible, seven more or less perfect 

 femurs, and portions of three humeri. Some had been 

 collected by Mr Edward Newton, to whom science is so 

 much indebted for the better acquaintance with the extinct 

 fauna of the Mascarenes, others by Mr II H. Slater, one 

 of the naturalists accompanying the " Transit-of- Venus " 

 Expedition. 



