1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 1-19 



parts are uniform cinnamon like the rump and under surface. Mr. 

 Layard and Mr. Gurney have overlooked these differences, and 

 make the southern bird the same as the north-eastern." On this 

 point I wish to observe that Riippell, in his ' Neue Wirbelth.' 

 pi. 26. fig. 1, represents Thamnolcea albiscapulata with both the 

 upper and under tail-coverts entirely cinnamomeous, and not black 

 as in the specimens examined by Dr. Finsch. 



P. .318. Ardea atricapilla (Afzel.). 



Dr. Finsch refers to an opinion which I expressed, and which 

 was quoted in 'The Ibis' for 1869, p. 437, that this Heron is not 

 separable from A.javunica, Horsf. 



I have subsequently had reason to alter my views on this subject, 

 as will be seen on reference to 'The Ibis ' for 1870, p. 151, where I 

 have expressed my belief that the two races are specifically distinct. 



3. On some Indian Reptiles. By John Anderson, M.D., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Director of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



[Eeceived February 2, 1871.] 



The reptiles described in the following notes, with a few excep- 

 tions, have been added to the collection of the Indian Museum, Cal- 

 cutta, within the last five months. As some are recent additions to 

 the Indian fauna, while others belong to little-known species, I 

 have given a full description of each, and have taken, as far as pos- 

 sible, Dr. Giinther's work on the reptiles of India as my guide. 

 When the synonyms of a species are not given it is to be understood 

 that they are accepted as defined by Giinther. 



It will be observed that a number of Mr. Blyth's types of Batra- 

 chia in the Indian Museum have been identified. These are of pecu- 

 liar interest, as Mr. Theobald was under the impression when he 

 drew up his catalogue of the reptiles in the Asiatic Society's Museum 

 that they had disappeared from the collection. 



As the majority of the specimens from which the descriptions 

 were derived reached me very shortly after the reptiles had been 

 collected, it was in my power to describe the coloration almost as it 

 occurs during life ; and from the circumstance, too, that the collec- 

 tions were made on a very large scale, and embraced a very extended 

 series of duplicates, I have been in a position to indicate many vari- 

 ations of species hitherto unrecorded. 



List of Species described in the folloiviny pages. 

 Chelonia. 

 Emydid^e. 



I. Pangshura tecta, Gray. Jumna, Agra. 



