MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 189 



It is oi' course nothing in the way of length, but is the most massive horn I 

 have ever seen. I append the measurements : — 



Rigl 



Round burr 



„ middle ... 



„ just below foot... 



Length outside curve 



„ straight 



Span between top points 

 „ „ brow antler points 



The rule shown is an ivory rule. 



T. A. HAUXWELL.i.f.s. 

 Rangoon, &th April, 1907. 



[For the sake of comparison it may be interesting to mention that we have 

 in the Society's Museum a single Sambar horn which measures as follows : — 



Girth round burr 12|" 



„ „ mid beam 9 " 



This horn was presented to us by Mr. S. A. Strip of Wadhwan, who sends us 

 the following note in regard to it : — 



" Some twenty-five years ago H. H. the late Raja Jetsingji of Chhota Udepur 

 in Rewa Kantha was out one day beating for shikar in the jungles of his 

 territory. In one of the beats the sambar, carrying this lovely pair of antlers, 

 was put up, and instead of going to the guns, broke back, and while passing- 

 through the beaters, was shot by one of them who happened to have a 

 common single barrel gun. The antlers were removed from the skull, and 

 the one in 'question, after being mutilated and lying about in the Durbar for 

 years, was given to me by one of the Raja's sons who was a student in the 

 college here (Wadhwan)." — Eds.] 



No. VIII.— OVO VIVIPAROUS HABIT OF THE PAINTED TREE 

 SNAKE (DENDROPHIS PICTUS). 



A specimen of Dendrophis pictus has just come into my hands which estab- 

 lishes the fact that this species is ovoviviparous. 



The specimen, except for being decapitated, was in excellent preservation 

 and was killed on the 27th of May. It measured 3 feet 8| inches, the tail 

 accounting for 1 foot 3 inches. 



It was found to contain 7 eggs in abdomina. These were unusually elongate, 

 and varied somewhat in length. The largest was 1^2 inches, the shortest 1| 

 inches, and both were J an inch across. 



They were invested with a white kid-like envelope, and were uniformly 

 white in colour. It was obvious, from their slight translucency, that they con- 

 tained embryos. They were cut into, and the embryos shaken out of their mem- 

 branes under water. They were extremely gelatinous owing to the early 

 stage in their development, and were, in consequence. extremely difficult to 



