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REPTILES AND Batracuta.—Mr. G. A. Boulenger describes a 
new Calamaria, from Borneo, in the Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(March). He also notes that Elaphis grabowskyi Fischer, from 
Southeastern Borneo, is identical with Æ. teuiurus Cope. The 
latter snake has a wide range, since his have been obtained 
from Pekin, Darjeeling, Siam, and Sumatra. 
Mr. G. Boulenger makes some remarks (Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist., March) upon the fresh-water turtle recently described 
by Mr. E. P. Ramsey in the Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. This 
tortoise (Carettochelys) was obtained in the “Fly River, New 
Guinea, and is stated to be one of the most striking discoveries 
made in recent herpetology during the last twenty years. It 
differs from all fresh-water turtles by the structure of the limbs, 
clawed. Epidermic scutes are absent. Mr. Boulenger makes it 
the ed of a family of Pleurodira,—Carettochelydide. 
. Boulenger has recently described Rana martensi, from 
jon: Ixalus asper, from Perak; and Geomolge fischeri, from 
the river Ussuri, in Mantchuria. ‘Also a new frog, of the genus 
Megalophrys, from Perak. 
Birps.—Mr. F. E. Beddard states that the air-sacs of Casu- 
arius resemble those of Apteryx much more closely than those 
of Rhe 
a. 
The same anatomist has examined the structure of the syrinx 
in various Caprimulgida. Though the Guacharo (Steatornis) 
stands alone in having a purely branchial syrinx, yet Podargus 
and Batrachostomus are transitional between Steatornis and 
other Caprimulgide. 
ose interested in pterography will find, in the Proceedings 
_ Zool. Soc. London, April, 1886, a valuable paper, with illustra- 
tions, upon the disposition of the cubital c coverts. r. Good- 
coverts with certain structural peculiarities omic ra myo- 
te, ar and pterographica 
B. Tristram (P. Z. S. January, 1886) describes Dafila 
Mariig a fourth species o of the genus, from Sidney Island, 
: Pheenix ret (lat., 4.30° S.; lon., 171.20° 
Mr. P. 
W.). 
ater has described a new flamingo (Phenicopterus 
syn from Tara arapaca, Chili. Three specimens were obtained 
by Carlos Rahmer, at a height of about twelve thousand feet, at 
the pa of the Tsluga Volcano. The bill is shorter and smaller 
than in Ph. andinus, the naked space at the lores wider, the upper 
mandible narrower, and there is less black at the tip. The legs 
of the species are 
Mammats.—The British Museum has lately received, along 
with the magnificent collection of East Indian birds donated by 
