312 DR. GADOW ON THE ANATOMY OF PTEROCLES. [Mar. 21, 



type of animal life the absence of which was characteristic of a 

 particular district or region. This term he proposed should be 

 "Lipotype"\ 



Thus the order Insectivora and the families Bovidae and Viverridae 

 were " lipotypes" of the Neotropical Region ; the Bears (Ursidae) 

 and the Deer (Cervidse) of the ^Ethiopian Begion ; and the Wood- 

 peckers (Picidse) and Vultures (Vulturidae) of the Australian Begion. 



The term was of course more specially required and more 

 appropriate in cases where the " lipotype " was a form that might 

 prima facie have been expected to occur in the Begion or district 

 in question but was remarkable by its absence. 



Dr. Griinther, F.B.S., exhibited a flat skin of a very remarkable 

 pale sandy-coloured variety of the Leopard {Felis pardus), from the 

 Matabele district, South Africa, and pointed out its superficial 

 resemblance in colour to the Woolly Cheetah {Felis lanea, Sclater) . 



Dr. Giinther also exhibited and made remarks upon the shell of 

 a new Tortoise of the genus Geoemyda from Siam, which he proposed 

 to describe as new at a subsequent meeting. 



Mr. B. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited a specimen of a Goldfinch from 

 Hungary, which had been sent to him by Dr. J. von Madarasz of 

 the Museum of Buda-Pest, and which had been described by that 

 gentleman as Carduelis elegans albigularis. Mr. Sharpe pointed 

 out that a variety of the Goldfinch with a white throat was by no 

 means unplentiful in England, and that a figure agreeing with the 

 specimen now exhibited would be found in the late Mr. Dawson 

 Bowley's 'Ornithological Miscellany' (vol. i. p. 91, fig. 3 in the 

 plate). 



The following papers were read : — 



1 . On some Points in the Anatomy of Pterocles, with 

 Remarks on its Systematic Position. By Hans Gadow, 

 Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived February 18, 1882.] 



Amongst the unfinished manuscripts of the late Prof. A. Brandt, 

 in St. Petersburg, there were some notes by him preparatory to a 

 discussion on the anatomical characters of the Pterocletes. His son, 

 now Professor in Charkow, was good enough to put these notes into 

 my hands, while others were distributed amongst those naturalists 

 who specially interested themselves in the other different groups to 

 which that distinguished naturalist had devoted some of his atten- 

 tion. The Society will see, therefore, that it was with peculiar 



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