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Station in Europe. An example of the Mealy Redpoll {Fringilla 

 linaria) was caught on the 14th of September, 1890 ; a Lesser White- 

 throat (Sylvia curruca) was caught seventeen days later ; a Yellow- 

 browed Warbler {Phylloscopus superciliosus) after a further interval 

 of fourteen days ; and a Red-breasted Flycutcher (Mnscicapa parva) 

 six days later still. In the meantime, on the 11th of October in the 

 same year, the fifth specimen exhibited had been caught at the Black 

 Rock Lighthouse in County Mayo, and proved to be a Short-toed 

 Lark (Alauda brachydactyla). 



Mr. W.B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S,, exhibited and made remarks on an 

 abnormal growth of the bill of a Rook {Corvus frugilegus), and on 

 the head of a Pheasant with the upper mandible entirely wanting, 

 which had been forwarded to him by Mr. E. L. Layard, F.Z.S. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Notes on Transcaspian Reptiles. 



By G. A. BOULENGER. 



[Received October 28, 1891.] 



Since the publication, in 1888, of Dr. Boettger's excellent account 

 of the herpetological results of the Radde- Walter Expedition to 

 Transcaspia\ the British Museum has acquired, partly through the 

 kind mediation of Dr. Boettger himself, a large number of Reptiles 

 from the same district, which enable me to supplement the above 

 work and to add six species which have not been recorded before 

 from the Russian Empire. The fact of the occurrence so far west 

 of the Indian species Eumeces scutatus, Lycodon sfriatus, and Dipsas 

 trigonata is of great interest, as is also the rediscovery of Ophiomorus 

 hrevipes, hitherto known from a single specimen preserved in the 

 Calcutta Museum. 



The material upon which these notes are based consists of the 

 following series : — 



1. The first set of duplicates of Dr. Radde's collection, 30 



specimens, including types of Phrynocephalus raddii, Bttg. 

 Received in 1888. 



2. 22 specimens from Ashabad, collected by M. C. Eylandt. 



Received in 1890. 



3. 28 specimens from Ashabad and Tedshen, near Merv. Received 



in exchange from the Warsaw Museum in 1890, 



4. 7 specimens obtained by M. P. A. Warentzoff at Ashabad. 



Received in 1891. 



5. 20 specimens from Bokhara, the Copet Dagh near Ashabad, 



Achal, and Alexandrowski. Received in exchange from 

 M. P. NazarofP, 1891. 



^ " Die Eeptilien und Batrachier Transkaspiens," Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1888, 

 pp. 871-972, pi. xxxiT. 



