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externally with a series of larger scales of a darker green, and 

 others lighter. The inside of the legs is greenish grey. 



Tail. — The tail above is yellowish green, with lighter and 

 darker spots of yellow and blue ; and below it is greenish 

 grey. 



The specimen was fed with flies, and brought alive from 

 the Cape of Good Hope to Leith, by Mr Adam Brown, 

 engineer, and died only a few weeks ago. 



An artist friend has kindly made a sketch in water- 

 colours of the chameleon (now exhibited), thinking the 

 bright tints of the creature would soon fade, but they are 

 still in a great measure retained ; it was very unusual, so 

 far as Dr Smith was aware, to see them still remaining to 

 so great an extent after the death of the chameleon. 



Length of head to extremity of elevated crest, inch. 



Length from snout to anus along abdomen. 3 J inches. 



Length from anus to extremity of tail, 3f inches. 



Greatest depth of body, 1 \ inch. 



The fringe measures if of an inch in length, and its longest 

 lobes of an inch in depth. 



The specimen is probably a female. 



VII. Ornithological Notes : (1.) Aquila chrysaetos. (2.) Pastor roseus, 

 Young. (3.) Passer domesticus, and Turdus merula, white varieties. 

 (Specimens exhibited.) By John Alex. Smith, M.D. 



(.1) Aquila chrysaetos, Golden Eagle. 

 A very fine specimen of a male golden eagle was exhibited. 

 It was shot on the 9th January last, on Einevy Hill, 

 Glenshee, Perthshire. The bird showed the general dark 

 plumage, and the white base of the tail, characteristic of the 

 young bird. 



(2.) Pastor roseus, Temm, the Rose-Coloured Pastor. 

 The bird is probably a young male. It was shot on 28th 

 October 1865, at Sound, near Lerwick, Shetland Islands, 

 while feeding with a few common starlings. An adult 

 female, now preserved in the Lerwick Museum, was shot on 

 23d May 1865, at Maryfleld, Island of Brassay, near Lerwick ; 



