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the sides are light reddish olive, and covered with minute brown 

 dots, like the back. The hind part of the thigh is of a beautiful 

 purple colour. This species changes the colours but little ; but they 

 appear darker and the markings more intense when the animal is 

 awake than when asleep. Our specimen is much less greedy and 

 less active than H. peronii, although it is not less slender, and makes 

 leaps as long as the other species ; it selects its hiding-place on the 

 ground below some stones. I have not heard any voice from it ; 

 but I am not certain about its sex. 



Hyla phyllochroa, n. sp. (PI. XXX. figs. C, c). — Snout rather 

 short, broad, with the canthus rostralis angular. The vomerine 

 teeth form two very small groups, situated behind the level of the 

 hinder edge of the inner nostrils. Tympanum distinct, much smaller 

 than the eye. Tongue scarcely notched behind. Perfectly smooth 

 above ; belly granular ; a fold across the chest. Fingers one-fourth 

 webbed ; the membrane between the toes does not extend to the ter- 

 minal disk. Uniform green above, white below ; a very narrow, 

 slightly prominent black line, edged with yellow superiorly, runs 

 from the eye, above the tympanum, to the side of the body, where it 

 is lost. 



Besides the living specimen in the Society's menagerie, I have exa- 

 mined three others in the British Museum (two from Sydney, received 

 through Messrs. Cuming and Krefft, and one from Errumanga, New). 

 This species possesses the faculty of changing its colours only in a 

 slight degree ; it is generally of a uniform light sap-green, which, 

 under certain circumstances, becomes darker. I have not heard a 

 voice from it. Those in the British Museum are females ; the largest 

 has the ovaria fully developed, and measures 17 lines from snout to 

 vent ; the hind leg 29 lines. 



3. Note on the Occurrence of the European Sea-Eagle 

 IN North America. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., Secretary to the Society, 



It is well known that the European Sea- Eagle is found in Green- 

 land. Professor J. Reinhardt, in his article on the Ornithology of 

 Greenland, published in the ' Ibis' for 1861*, states that it is " very 

 common" in that country, occurring "in South Greenland all the 

 year round, in North Greenland only in summer." But I am not 

 aware that any instance is hitherto known of this Eagle having been 

 met with on the continent of North America ; indeed Professor Baird, 

 in his ' Birds of North America,' states the contrary to be the 

 case. I have therefore thought that it would be desirable to place 

 on record a short statement of the facts which induce me to believe 

 that the Haliaetus albicillus is not merely an occasional visitant to 

 the northern shores of North America, but even resides and breeds 

 in that country. 



In December 1861, Mr. A. W. Crichton deposited in the Society's 



* " List of the Birds hitherto observed in Greenland," Ibis, 1861, p. 1. 



