EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PERIODICAliS. 
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Buges has furnished excellent descriptions of many species from the south of 
France. Prince Bonaparte has studied those of Itahr, on which Metaxa is at 
present engaged. And MM. Bibron and Bory have recently published the 
names of thirty-one species, some of which, obtained /rom the Morea, are new. 
Other accounts also exist on the reptiles of the same countries, but they are for 
the most part scattered through various works, and have not special reference to 
©rpetological geography. 
The following are the twenty-seven reptiles mentioned by M. Gervais as oc¬ 
curring in Barbary:— 
Testudo marginata^ Schcefe. ; T. ibera, Pall. ; Emgs lep7%sa^ Schweig. ; 
Gecko fascicularis^ Baud. ; G. 'oerruculatus^ Cuv.; Ggmnodactglus Maurita- 
nicus^ Bum. and Bibr. ; Chameleo vulgaris^ Linn. ; Uromastgx acanthinurus. 
Bell ; Lacerta viridis; L, agilis; Algira Barbarica; Lerista Dumerilii^ 
Cocteau; Semeus ocellatus; S. cgprius, Cuv.; Seps tridactylus^ Baud.; An- 
guisfragilis^ Linn; ; A. punctatissimus, Bibr. and Bory ; Pseudopus serpen- 
tinus, Merr. ; Amphisbeena cinerea, Vandelli; A. elegans. Gerv. ; Coluber 
Agassizii ; C. hippocrepis^ Linn. ; C. Austriacus, Linn. ; C. mperinus^ Linn. ; 
C. Msculapiiy Lacep. ; Bufo'^jlrabicus^ Crestz. ; Trito7i Poireti^ Gerv. — An- 
nales des Sciences Naturelles. 
3. On the Lammer Geyer {Ggpaetus barbatus), —These birds, observes 
Mr. Hodgson, of Nepaul, which appear to be sufficiently common in the western 
portion of the vast chain of the Himalayas, are also found, though more rarely, 
on the eastern side, in Nepaul. They live either separate or in flocks, and 
assemble wherever there is a good repast to be had, without fearing even the 
neighbourhood of man. The author considers them as belonging to the Ggpaete 
des Alpes^ and the Vautour bm'bu of Africa. In fact they agree in size; and 
although the assertion of Bishop Heber, that the Himalayan bird measures 
twenty feet from wing to wing, must be rejected as a popular exaggeration, yet 
it appears, by the observations of the author, that the length is often ten and 
even eleven feet. Its form is more that of a Vulture than of an Eagle. The 
bill is horn-coloured, straight, and very strong; the nostrils are covered with 
stiff black bristles, directed forwards; two bunches of similar bristles, at the 
base of the lower mandible, give this bird its provincial name. The head and 
neck are entirely covered with short, straight, pointed feathers, which are of a 
light tawny brown color, with a yellowish tinge. The wings are as long as the 
tail, the feathers being dark, with a white stripe in the centre. The legs are 
short, the tarsi very short, and entirely covered with feathers ; the talons, inter¬ 
mediate between those of the Vultures and the Falcons, are lead-colored. It 
has not, like the Lammer Geyer, a white band round the head, but there is no 
great importance in such a character, and Mr, Hodgson’s description seems to 
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