1883.] MR. SCLATER ON A LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 131 



Fig. 2. Gehyra vorax, lower view of foot, magnified 1^ diam. 



2 a. , lateral view of 4th toe, magnified 1^ diam. 



3. Lepidodactylus hiffiibris, lower view of foot, magnified 3 diam. 



3 a. •, lateral view of 4th toe, magnified 3 diam. 



4. cyclurtts, lower view of foot, magnified 2 diam. 



5. sauvaqii, lower view of hand, magnified 4 diam. 



5 a. — , lower view of foot, magnified 4 diam. 



6. crepuscularis, lower view of foot, magnified 4 diam. 



7. Eurydactylus vieillardi, upper view of head, magnified 1^ diam. 

 7 a. , lower view of foot, magnified 2^ diam. 



7 b. . , lateral view of 4th toe, magnified 4 diam. 



8. Gymnodactylus arnouxi, lower view of foot, magnified 2^ diam. 



8 a. , lateral view of 4th toe, magnified 2J diam. 



March 20, 1883. 

 Professor Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to the fact that a specimen of his 

 Mncropus erubescens (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 126, pi. x.) was living iu the 

 Kangaroo paddock of the Zoological and Acclimatization Society's 

 Gardens, MeIl)ourue, Australia, and read the following extract on the 

 subject from the ' Guide ' to that Society's Gardens ^ : — 



" The Euro or Roan Kangaroo (il/ac/'o/JMserMfiesceHs). The Euro 

 is found to the north of Port Augusta, S. Australia, and it lives 

 principally on barren rocky ranges. It is a smaller variety than the 

 Red Kangaroo, and it has mucli longer and coarser hair, of a roan 

 colour. It is difficult to procure. The fine specimen in the 

 Society's pos.session was obtained through the instrumentality of 

 Mr. R. E. Minchin, the Director of the newly formed Zoological 

 Society of Adelaide." 



Mr. Sclater laid before the Meeting a set of the sheets of a new 

 List of British Birds which had been prepared by a Committee of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union, and would shortly be published, 

 and explained the principles upon which it had been constructed. 



The names of all those species of which even a single example had 

 been certainly obtained within the confines of the United Kingdom 

 in a wild state had been inserted iu the list. The names of such 

 species as had been wrongly reported to have occurred, and of those 

 of which the occurrence was considered to be not sufficiently authen- 

 ticated, had been inserted in their proper places in the Systema, but 

 had been enclosed in brackets and printed in smaller types. 



The derivations of both specific and generic names of all the species 

 were given, as far as they could be ascertained ; and a short account 

 of the range of each species both within the British area and 

 externally to it was added. 



The subjoined table gave an abstract of the results arrived at. 



I ftuido to the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society's Gardens, Eoyal 

 Park. By the Director of the Society. Sixth Edition. Melbourne, 1883. 



