MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 1G9 



dry zone whose eggs remain unidentified. I have shewn both nests and eggs to 

 K. 0. Macdonald, describing locality and date, so I hope he will be fortunate 

 enough next year to get a good series of egg^, as the bird is fairly common in 

 certain tracts. 



Monowa, Burma, H. H. HARRINGTON, Captain. 



9th August 1904. 



No. XVIII.— NOTES ON BURMESE REPTILES. 

 Dryophis mycterizans. 



In a paper on Burmese Snakes. Vol. XIII, page 615, Captain Wall and 1 

 mentioned a specimen containing three apparently mature young. I killed a 

 female on 4th May containing five young, without trace of an egg envelope. 



Dryophis prasinus. 



A specimen killed in jungle by a Burman, 5th June, contained nine (9) eggs. 



This snake in the adult stage is described in Boulenger's Reptilia : — 

 ' Fauna British India' — Reptilia and Batrachia, as ferocious, while Dryophis 

 mycterizans is said to be a very gentle snake. My experience is that both 

 are gentle enough when left alone, but when irritated Dryophis mycterizans 

 often loses his temper badly, and with open jaws strikes violently, raising the 

 fore part of the body well off the ground in order to do so, while I have 

 rarely found prasinus at all vicious, even when subjected to considerable 

 irritation. 



Lycodon fasciatus. 

 In Volume XIII, page 372, Captain Wall and I described two specimens of 

 this apparently rare snake. I have been fortunate in obtaining a third from a 

 friend who killed it at Maymyo, 3,000'. 

 Length 2'-7" 

 Tail 6£" 



Anterior chin shields equal to posterior. 

 Ventrals 203. 

 Subcaudals 86. 

 Colour as already described ; there are 28 reddish yellow bands on body and 

 14 on the tail. 



SlMOTES ALBOCINCTUS. 



This is the first specimen I have received or seen in Burma. It was killed 

 on the 6th April 1902 at Sadon, Kachin Hills, 4,500'. 

 Length 2'-10". 

 Tail 6". 



The internasal suture almost equals the prefrontal. 

 Loreal shield united with the praefrontal. 

 Ventrals 202. 

 Subcaudals 58. 



There are in all 23 light, black-edged bands involving two scales, the 

 intervals eight scales. 

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