APPENDIX. 
415 
On receiving this most valuable and interesting collec- 
tion, I referred the part relative to the Fish to my excellent 
friend, Dr. Richardson of Haslar, one of the first Ichthy- 
ologists now living, who has kindly arranged the notes in 
systematic order, and added to them, as far as he was able, 
the modern scientific names. I have done the same to the 
Reptiles myself. I have retained the original numbers, as 
they refer to the drawings which are preserved in the 
zoological department of the British Museum. — J. E. Gray. 
REPTILES. 
Fam. Lialisidje. 
Lialis Burtonii. Native name Kerry-gura. Considered 
by the natives as harmless ; the scales of the back are very 
minute ; the tail when broken is sometimes terminated by 
three horny blunt ends ; tongue divided and rounded. 
Lialis bicatenata. Native name William lunger. Tongue 
not forked, broad, and rounded off at the point. Not 
poisonous or at all dreaded by the natives ; finely striped 
down the back, and spotted with deep brown equal marks ; 
has a lappel on each side of the vent. 
Killed 10th of October, 1841. 
Fam. CoLUBRiDiE. 
Naja, ? Native name Torn-ock or Tookyte . Colour 
dirty olive over the whole body ; belly dirty olive ; 
white, faintly dotted from the throat down to the vent, 
with reddish dirty orange spots ; the whole colour appears 
as if faded ; the scales are more closely united to the skin 
than those of the Noon ; fangs placed on each side of the 
upper jaw, short and rather blunt ; scuta, 223. 
Although the natives assert, if a person is bitten by this 
snake, and gets down,’’ i. e. lays in bed three days, he 
