1861.] DR. W. PETERS ON AN ASIATIC SNAKK. 4? 



guiu " of the Falkland Islands is of this species, and quite distinct 

 from the true E. chrysocome of Forster, which is an inhabitant more 

 particularly of the Australian seas. As, however, Capt. Abbott has 

 obtained a single specimen of the true Euclyptes chrysocome in the 

 Falklands, the latter bird must also be retained in the list as a 

 straggler. 



11. EuDYPTES ANTARCTicus (Forstcr) : Yoy. Erebus & Terror, 

 Birds, pi, 26. 



Capt. Abbott obtained a single specimen of this Penguin in 

 Berkeley Sound, East Falkland. It was by itself in the bay when 

 procured. This example is now in Mr. Gould's collection. 



The Penguins which occur in the Falkland Islands appear there- 

 fore to be no less than eight in number, viz. — 



1 . Aptenodytes pennaiitii. Called the " King Penguin." 



2. Spheniseus magellanicus. " Jackass Penguin." 



3. Euclyptes chrysolophus. " Macaroni Penguin." 



4. diadematus (accidental visitor). 



5. chrysocome (accidental visitor). 



6. niyrivestis. " Bock-hopper Penguin." 



7. an#«?"ch'cM« (accidental visitor) . 



8. Pygosceles wagleri. " Gentoo Penguin." 



Of the preceding eleven species, on which I have remarked as above, 

 ten are not included in my former list. This addition would raise 

 the number of the species belonging to the Avifauna of these islands 

 to sixty-seven. On the other hand, I may remark, Capt, Abbott 

 doubts much the occurrence of Cinclodes vulgaris and Scytalopus 

 magellanicus in the Falkland Islands, and is also unacquainted with 

 Phrygilv.s xanthogrammus, which is perhaps not really distinct from 

 P. melanoderus. 



2. On the Asiatic Snake called Taphrometopon lineo- 

 LATUM BY Professor Brandt. By Dr. W. Peters, of 

 Berlin, For. Mem. Z.S. 



The late Professor Eversmann of Kasan discovered in the year 

 1822, on his journey from Orenburg to Buchara, a species of Snake, 

 which was described by Lichtenstein* as "Coluber trabalis, Pallas." 

 The specimens are, as I find from the manuscript notes which Evers- 

 mann sent with his collection, from Buchara and the desert of " Bur- 

 zuk " (Barusek), on the eastern shores of lake Aral, and bear in our 

 museum the label "Nordasien, Eversmann." There were originally 

 five examples of this snake in our collection ; and three are still there. 

 One of them was sent in December 1823 to Temminck. Now, as 

 the description of C'horisodon sibiricum (in the 'Erpetologie Gen^rale,' 

 viii. p. 901) may perfectly well be applied to the Coluber trabalis, 



* Ed. Eversmann, ' Reise von Orenburg nach Buchara,' Berlin, 1823, p. 146. 



