534 Description of a new species of venomous Snake, 



the eyes are yellow. However, it is probable, that the 

 colours of the living animal are very different. Total length 

 25 inches, 6 lines : length of the tail 2 inches, 3 lines : Scuta 

 abdominalia 216: Scutella subcaudalia 27. 



This new species, which is a native of Assam, I take the 

 liberty of dedicating to the eminent naturalist, Mr. McClel- 

 land, Bengal Medical Service, to whom the Royal Museum 

 in Copenhagen is indebted for the only example I have 

 seen. 



Copenhagen, March 10, 1843. 



Jerdons Illustrations of Indian Ornithology. 



We have been favoured with the sight of the first number of this 

 work, published at Madras, by J. B. Pharoah, containing twelve co- 

 loured plates, with a full description of the species figured ; the whole 

 to be completed in four numbers, price 6 rupees each. The execution of 

 the plates and the colouring which has been done under the superin- 

 tendence of the author, T. C. Jerdon, Esq. Madras Medical Service, 

 together with the general appearance and character of the work, sur- 

 passes any thing of the kind that has yet been attempted in the way 

 of Zoological publications in India. We merely refer to the work 

 upon this occasion, as highly creditable not only to the author, but to 

 the Presidency at which it is got up, and sincerely hope it may meet 

 with that support which it deserves from the admirers of the interest- 

 ing subject of which it treats. Mr. Blyth has requested us to insert 

 the following valuable notes by himself on the contents of the pre- 

 sent number, which we do with much pleasure : — 



" The Nisaetus grandis, Hodgson, figured in Plate I. is, I have now 

 reason to suspect, identical with the European Aquila Bovelli, which 

 species is included in Mr. Vigne's list of birds procured in Tibet, 

 Kashmir, &c. published Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1841, p. 6. It certain- 

 ly differs in several respects from the type of Nisaetus, Hodgson, so 

 exemplified by N, pukher cristatellus (apud Elliot, which is identi- 



