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 Bovidee and Viverridz 
were “ lipotypes”’ of the Neotropical Region ; the Bears (Urside) 
and the Deer (Cervidee) of the Aithiopian Region; and the Wood- 
peckers (Picidz.) and Vultures (Vulturide) of the Australian Region. 
The term was of course more specially required and more 
appropriate in cases where the “ lipotype”’ was a form that might 
primd facie have been expected to occur in the Region or district 
in question but was remarkable by its absence, 
Dr. Giinther, F.R.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. R. 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 agreemg with the 
specimen now exhibited would be found in the late Mr. Dawson 
Rowley’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 Pierocles, with 
Remarks on its Systematic Position. By Hans Gapow, 
Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. 
[Received 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 
Aci, deficio, et rizos, forma. 
