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common both in America and Europe : Mr. Gould has also seen it 

 from India and Africa. It breeds in England. 



Charadrius Pluvialis, Linn. Inhabiting Europe and the adjoining 

 portions of Africa and Asia, but not America. 



Charadrius Himantopus, Linn. Inhabiting Europe, particularly the 

 southern parts, and Asia and Africa, but not America ; its place in 

 the latter continent being filled by a species nearly allied to it. It 

 occasionaHy visits England. 



Anas Querquedula, Linn. Inhabiting India as well as Europe : 

 common in the Himalayan range. 



Anas Fuligula, Linn. Found in all temperate countries of the old 

 continent, but not hitherto in America. 



Clangula vulgaris, Flem. Though common in England during the 

 ■winter, the proper locality of this bird is in the high northern lati- 

 tudes. Mr. Gould has not previously seen a specimen from so south- 

 em a habitat as the present. 



Mergus Albellus, Linn. Similarly circumstanced with the last, 

 although apparently still more arctic, as it visits England only in se- 

 vere winters. 



Podiceps cristatus. Found in nearly all the temperate regions of 

 the globe. 



Mr. Gray exhibited a specimen of a Reptile from New South 

 Wales, which he regarded as constituting the type of a new genus 

 nearly related to Bipes, Latr. He characterized it under the name of 



LlALIS. 



Caput elongatum, fronte piano, squamis parvis subimbricatis ves- 

 titum : irides lineares, verticales : aures oblongae, conspicuae. 



Corpus subcylindricum, attenuatum : squamis dorsalibus ovatis, con- 

 vexis, Isevibus; ventralium seriebus duabusintermediismajoribus. 



Pedes duo, postici, obsoleti, acuti, ad basin 2 — 3-squamati. 



Anus subposticus : squanuB prteanales parvse ; pari subanales utrin- 

 que quatuor per paria dispositi. 



This genus is very nearly allied to Pygopus, Merr., but may be 

 readily distinguished from it by the characters above given. In 

 Pygopus the head is short, more rounded in front, and covered with 

 regular shields : the pupil is subcircular : the feet are broad, ovate, 

 blunt, and covered with three rows of scales : the vent has five large 

 oblong scales in front of it : and the subanal pores form a continu- 

 ous series. 



LiALis BuBTONis. Li. suprh pallid^ cinerascenti-brunnea, nigra 

 minutissime punctata ; subtus pallide cacaotico-brunnea ; strigd 

 albd utrinque a labio superiore supra oculos per nucham, alterdque 

 latiore a labio superiore per latera ad cauda apicem ductis. 

 Junior. Strigis colli lateralibus obsoletis. 



Obs. Epidermide remota subalbida est strigis lactescentibus. 



Hab. in " Nova Cambria Australi." Dr. Mair. — Muss. Chatham 

 et Brit. 



