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this exploration we must therefore take into account the seasonal con- 
ditions under which it was accomplished. With this allowance it is by- 
no means unsatisfactory. The general results obtained seem to be — 
1st. The establishment of the fact, probable in itself, that at a 
height of 5,000 feet in the latitude of Bellenden-Ker no change of 
fauna takes place, even in a district susceptible of the introduction 
of exotic forms. Not only were some of our most familiar birds, 
such as the Thickhead i^JPacTiycephala gutturalis)^ seen in numbers 
on the top of the mountain, but the more local kinds — for example the 
Tooth-billed Cat Bird, Meston's Bower Bird, and the new Black- 
throated Sericorn — were found at all heights and on the summit, 
over which were seen flying the Blue-mountain and Scaly-breasted 
Lorikeets. 
2nd. The discovery of two species of lacertian reptiles, both of 
them additional proofs of the statement previously made that an 
importation of extra Australian forms of life into this locality has, 
by some means, been brought about. These lizards can only be 
referred to the genera PerocJiirus (belongiag to the Geckoes) and 
Tropidopliorus (a genus of Seines) found in Indo- China, Borneo, and 
the Philippine Islands, and not previously known to extend their 
range beyond those limits. Under the methodical names of Tropi- 
dophorus queenslandice and JPerocTiirus mestoni these lizards have been 
described in the Proceedings of the Linnsean Society of New South 
Wales. 
3rd. The enrichment of your stores with a considerable number 
of duplicate specimens, valuable for study or distribution, and with a 
supply of several species which have hitherto been desiderata. The 
entire collection consists of — 
Mammals 
Birds 
Lizards ... 
Snakes ... 
Molluscs 
Insects . . . 
11 specimens, 8 species. 
195 „ 79 „ 
15 „ 9 „ 
8 „ . 6 „ 
10 „ 
63 ,, 33 ,, 
Total ... 145 
Subjoined is a detailed and, where necessary, descriptive list of all 
the animals procured or noticed by the explorers. 
MAMMALS. 
Aboeiginals. Two skulls of the Mulgrave Eiver tribe Charroogin. 
So few skulls of Queensland natives have been described, that it 
would be culpable to neglect the present opportunity of recording 
measurements and characters. 
Adult male skull. — Dolichocephalic, mesognathous, microsome, 
platyrhine. Length, 180 ; breadth, 127 ; height, 133 ; frontal 
breadth, maximum 107, median 99-5 ; horizontal circumference 
510, pre-auricular 23G ; longitudinal dimensions, frontal 125, 
parietal 125, occipital 108 ; transverse dimensions, frontal 275, 
bregmatic 305, parietal 320 ; foramen magnum, length 34, 
breadth 28 j orbit, width 42, height 35 ; nasal orifice, width 
