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fingers of about equal length ; third nearly double as long ; carpus 

 with a very large smooth tubercle ; toes webbed ; metatarsus with 

 two small tubercles ; no fold on the tarsus ; tympanum very small ; 

 parotoid elongate, rather indistinct, four times as long as broad. 

 Body and belly covered with warty tubercles ; the arms and legs 

 quite spiny. Colour blackish brown ; the thighs, arms, and legs 

 beautifully marbled with carmine ; the tubercles of the body often 

 tipped with the same colour ; those of the belly often whitish. 



Length of body 1|- inches, hind legs 2 inches. 



Hab. Travancore. 



A single specimen was captured, under an old rotten log, in dense 

 moist forests, above the Ayen-Coil pass (Travancore), at about 2500 

 feet elevation ; its nearest ally is the B. kelaartii, a Ceylonese 

 species. 



In the same forest was captured a fine large species of Dendrophis, 

 with almost exactly the coloration of Ptyas mucosa, and no trace of 

 a yellowish lateral band ; the scales in fifteen rows, the vertical row 

 very much enlarged and hexagonal, and the two next rows rather 

 enlarged ; but as the plates of the head are in every way quite 

 similar to those of Dendrophis pictus, and it does not seem to differ 

 from that species in any thing but coloration ; I do not like to con- 

 sider it a new species ; it is, however, a new variety, I think. 



2. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines. — 

 No. I. On the Collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett 

 in the Island of Luzon. By Arthxtr^ Marquis o£ 

 TwEEDDALE, F.R.S., President of the Society. 



[Eeceived July 16, 1877.] 



(Plates LXXII. and LXXIII.) 



Mr. Everett, so favourably known as an able, energetic and zealous 

 field-naturalist, and as one of the foremost explorers of the fauna of 

 Borneo, arrived in the Island of Luzon in the beginning of this year, 

 and, after overcoming the official difficulties which sometimes obstruct 

 scientific investigations in the Philippine Islands, commenced collect- 

 ing zoological specimens at Monte Alban and San Mateo, stations 

 not far from Manilla. Among other objects Mr. Everett secured 

 some 361 specimens of birds in part of the month of January, in 

 February, and in the beginning of March, 1877. These he has 

 kindly consigned to me ; and I propose to give an account of them, 

 adding in each instance the original notes on the labels made by 

 Mr. Everett. Eighty-five species are represented in tlie collection ; 

 and although the neighbourhood of Manilla might with justice be 

 considered as having been exhausted by former collectors, Mr. Everett 

 has discovered three undescribed species, besides adding many more 

 to tlie already known Luzon, and a few to the Phihppine avifauna. 



In my memoir on the Birds inhabiting the Philippine Archi- 



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