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and Amphibia 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 proposes
a division more in accordance with his own studies of landshells,
birds, and mammals. The Recorder may reply that he
was fully conscious of the imperfect state of information as regards
details necessary to subdivide this part of the Indian
Region into provinces with definite boundaries, that he, therefore,
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 succeeded
in indicating the subdivisions of the western part of the
Indian continent, the Recorder will recognize them with pleasure
; 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 smaU
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 :—1. Punjab ; 2. Indian Province
proper, with a. Gangetic subprovince or Hindustan, b. Deccan,
c. Bengal, d. Madras, with Northern Ceylon; 3. Eastern-Bengal
province; 4. Malabar, with Southern Ceylon.
Island of Hainan. Mr. SWINHOE enumerates and makes notes
on 9 Reptiles and 3 Batrachians from this island. P. Z. S. 1870,
pp. 239-241.
Ecuador. X. DE 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.
FURBRINGER, 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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