1891.] 



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mottled with greenish buflF; beneath, the throat and breast grey, 

 the tips of the feathers brown ; belly greenish buff, shading off into 

 white on the under tail-coverts ; wing-quills and tail black, the 

 former edged outwardly with a narrow hue of white ; wing-coverts 

 and secondaries black, edged with brown-pink ; irides dark hazel ; 

 bill and feet horn-colour. 



Dimensions. Total length 520 inches, wing 3' 10, tail 2*20, 

 culmen "55, tarsus I'o. 



Hab. Maui. 



5. On British Remains of Homoeosaurus, with Remarks 

 on the Classification of the Rhynchocephalia. By 



G. A. BoULENGER. 



[Eeceived Februarj- 3, 1891.] 



The specimen which I have the pleasure of exhibiting before the 

 Society is the greater portion of the left ramus of a mandible which 



Fig. 1. 



Left mandibular ramus of Homxosaiirus major (specimen in the College of 

 Surgeons) and H. maxiwdliani (after y. Ammon). Natural size. 



agrees,except in the larger size, with that oi Homoeosaurus maximiliani, 

 H. T. Mey.\ an Upper Jurassic Khynchocephalian Reptile, remains 

 of about half a dozen individuals of which are known from Bavaria. 

 The chief interast of this specimen lies in its being believed to be 



^ H. V. Meyer, Jahrb. Miner. 1847, p. 182, and Faun. d. Vorwelt, Eept. 

 Lithogr. Schief. p. 101, pi. xi. (I860). 



L. \. Ammon, Abh. bayer. Akad. xv. p. 499, 2 pis. (1885). 



