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nd on investigation I found two black leeches in the oral cavity. 

 This snake takes readily to water, and on one occasion my wife and I 

 watched a large one swimming the river towards us. It breasted the 

 current, and though a strong flood was flowing, kept its position very 

 well, facing obliquely up stream, and making for a tangle of bush. 

 On another occasion a gentleman watched one swimming towards his 

 boat from across the river, and when confronted by the boatmen, it 

 proceeded to contest the right of way, and by its truculence lost its 

 1 ife. My informant said that when it landed it raised itself, and ex- 

 panded the neck in a contrary direction to that of the cobra, and was 

 very strikingly handsome. It is infested with the same parasite that 

 afflicts the Tropidonotus piscator and stolatus, i.e,, the larval tapeworm 

 [Pterocercus sp.). 



Other events, etc., of interest are as follows : — 



