280 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON ANUROUS BATRACHIANS. [ May 13, 
79. Chrysoccecyx lucidus. 98. Cygnus atratus. 
80. Phaps chalcoptera. 99. Cereopsis nove-hollandia. 
81. Peristera elegans. 100. Anseranas melanoleuca. 
82. Synecus australis. 101. Bernicla jubata. 
83 diemenensis. 102. Anas superciliosa. 
84. Lobivanellus lobatus. 103. ——- nevosa. 
85. Scolopax australis. 104 punctata. 
86. Scheniclus australis. 105. Malacorhynchus membrana- 
87. subarquatus. ceus. 
88. Rhynchea australis. 106. Biziura lobata. 
89. Herodias syrmatophorus. 107. Nyroca australis. 
90. Nycticorax caledonicus. 
. Sternula nereis. 
91. Grus australis. 109. Pelicanus conspicillatus. 
92. Botaurus australis. 110. Phalacrocorax carboides. 
93. Platalea regia. a le leucogaster. 
94. Porphyrio melanotus. 112. sulcirostris. 
95. Fulica australis. 113. Podiceps australis. 
96. Rallus pectoralis. 114. gularis. 
97. Gallinula tenebrosa. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On the Classification of the Anurous Batrachians. 
By Sr. Grorecr Mivart. 
In June 1858 Dr. Giinther read a very valuable paper before the 
Zoological Society *, stating the principles according to which he 
was disposed to arrange, systematically, the Anurous Batrachians. 
The system therein offered is that adopted by the same author in his 
Catalogue of the Frogs and Toads contained in the British Mu- 
seum ft. 
In 1865 Mr. E. Cope gave to the world another and very different 
plan for arranging the same animals tf, a plan which he has amended 
and further elaborated in papers published in the ‘Journal of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’ §. 
Dr. Giinther’s system reposes mainly on external and readily as- 
certainable characters. 
Mr. Cope’s system is founded on certain points of osteological 
detail. 
I venture here to propose a classification which is derived from, 
and in all the most important points agrees with, that of Dr. Gun- 
ther, but which differs from it in certain minor respects (owing to 
a different estimate of the value of certain points of structure), while 
* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 339. 
+ ‘Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the British 
Museum,’ by Dr. Albert Giinther. 1858. 
+ Natural History Review, vol. v. 1865, p. 97. 
§ Vol. vi. of the new series of that Journal, part 1, July 1866, p. 67, and 
part 2, September 1867, p. 189. 
