178 General Notes. [ February, 
Aporrhaide, Cerithiida, and Cerithiopsidz, seventy-five species 
in all, The worm Gordius verrucosus, obtained by Mr. Johnston 
on Kilimanjaro, is found also in South Africa, Ceylon and Cen- 
tral America. A river-crab from Kilimanjaro is by Mr. E. J. 
Miers referred, with some hesitation, to The/phusa depressa. 
Batrachia and Reptilia—Mr. W. B. Spencer contributes (Quart. 
Jour. Mic. Soc., 1885) some notes on the early development of 
Rana temporaria, with especial reference to the fate of the blasto- 
pore, and the development of the cranial nerves, which seems to 
be a more ancestral process than the method of their development 
in Elasmobranchs and birds. G. A. Boulenger describes (P. 
Z. S., 1885, 22) a new species of frog, Rana macronemis, from 
Asia Minor. Its nearest ally is R. temporaria. Lepidosternon 
polystegum is a Brazilian amphisbznoid with a sharp-edged cut- 
ting snout and singular scutellation of the top of the head. By 
means of its snout it has been known to cut its way through the 
side of a coral snake which had swallowed it. 
Birds—Mr. T. H. Guillemard (Proc. Zodl. Soc. Lon. 1885), 
ives a provisional list of the birds known to inhabit the Sulu 
archipelago. These are sixty-five in all, including sixteen pre- 
viously listed by Mr. Sharpe. If birds of wide distribution are 
deducted, thirty-nine species are left, out of which thirty are 
formed in the Phillipines, Professor W. Watson has’ con- 
tributed to the Proc. Zool. Soc. London some interesting notes 
on Peruvian birds. He has rediscovered the cliff-swallow, Fetro- 
chelidon ruficollis Peale. This bird was long searched for in the 
Andean valleys, and was ultimately found close to Lima. The 
nest is always found on human habitations. Pstttacula andicola 
of these occurs ata height of 14,000 feet; the third at 10,000; 
the fourth at 11,000, and the last at 12,000. Few of the remain- 
ing species reach these great elevations, but Palumbus arqua- 
trix, attains 10,300 feet, and Corvultur albicollis reaches up to the 
snow-line. Mr. F. E. Beddard divides the Cuculidz into Cucu- 
line, with the genera Cuculus, Chrysococcyx, Cacomantis, and 
pu 
World, and Geococcyx, Crotophaga aud Guira, from the New. 
