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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, 3f inches. 
Length from anus to extremity of tail, 3f inches. 
Greatest depth of body, 1\ inch. 
The fringe measures of an inch in length, and its longest 
lobes -i-Q of an inch in depth. 
The specimen is probably a female. 
VII. Ornithological Notes : (1.) Aquila chrjsaetos. (2.) Pastor rose us, 
Young. (3.) Passer domesticus, and Turdus merula, white varieties. 
(Specimens exhibited.) Bj John Alex. Smith, M.D. 
(.1) Aquila chrjsaetos, Golden Eagle. 
A very fine specimen of a male golden eagle was exhibited. 
It was shot on the 9th January last, on Binevy 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 Maryfield, Island of Brassay, near Lerwick ; 
