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?incl Ampliibia from Central India/^ in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
1870, pp. 335-376, with 3 plates. In introductory remarks he 
objects to views expressed by the Recorder with regard to the 
distribution of Reptilian types over Peninsular India^ and pro- 
poses a division more in accordance with his own studies of land- 
shells, birds, and mammals. The Recorder may reply that he 
was fully conscious of the imperfect state of information as re- 
gards details necessary to subdivide this part of the Indian 
Region into provinces with definite boundaries, that he, there- 
fore, cautiously abstained from proposing such a division, and 
that the distribution of Reptilian life in this region, as sketched 
out by him, is simply a short representation of facts, very few of 
which have proved to be erroneous. If Mr. Blanford has suc- 
ceeded in indicating the subdivisions of the western part of the 
Indian continent, the Recorder will recognize them with plea- 
sure ; but the evidence gathered from this class of animals and 
brought forward by Mr. Blanford at present, in support of his 
views, is quite inadequate for the purpose. That ^^in such 
matters local knowledge is essential ” the Recorder can hardly 
believe, since the main facts of the geographical distribution of 
animals have been elucidated by men who have seen but a small 
portion of the globe. An acquaintance with the physical features 
of a region is necessary, but may be more readily obtained from 
the works of travellers who have made physical geography their 
study than by travelling through some parts of the country. 
Mr. Blanford, then, divides Peninsular India, with Ceylon, 
into the following provinces ; — I. Punjab; 2. Indian Province 
proper, with a. Gangetic subprovince or Hindustan, b. Deccan, 
c. Bengal, d. Madras, with Northern Ceylon ; 3. Eastern-Ben^ 
gal province ; 4. Malabar, with Southern Ceylon. 
Island of Hainan. Mr. S win hoe enumerates and makes notes 
on 9 Reptiles and 3 Batrachians from this island. P. Z. S, 1870, 
pp. 239-241. 
Ecuador. X. db la Espada describes 13 new species of Frogs 
from Ecuador, the majority being types of new genera. Jorn. 
Sc. Lisb. ix. 1870, pp. 58-65. 
Anatomy and Physiology. 
1. Separate Publications. 
Fuhbringer, M. Die Knochen und Muskeln der Extremitaten 
bei den schlangenahnlichen Sauriern. Leipzig : 1870, 4to, 
pp. 136, with 7 plates. [The bones and muscles of the 
limbs of the Snake-like Saurians.] 
The author describes the bones and muscles of the scapular and 
pelvic arches and limbs of those Saurians in which the extremities 
are either imperfectly developed or have externally disappeared 
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