284 GENERAL NOTES 



Colohus Monkeys'', by J. A. Allen. The other articles 

 are all of a high standard, lack of space alone preventing 

 our comment thereupon. 



The third number of the first volume, published in May, 

 1920, contains forty-nine pages, four plates and four 

 text-figures. Besides the contributions on American mam- 

 mals, of particular interest to us is P. A. Taverner's views 

 on '' The test of the sultspeeies '', the question raised in 

 the first number of the Journal by Merriam; " T/ie Fur 

 Situation '\ by N. Dearborn, showing that the centre of 

 the fur trade has now shifted to North x\merica, where a 

 national conference was held in February, 1920, at Mont- 

 real, on the fur industry and wild life protection in 

 Canada; and a supplementary note on cleaning skulls 

 by A. B. Howell. 



A. Roberts. 



On June 4th. 1920, Mr. J. Forsyth of the Experimental 

 Farm, Glen, brought me a specimen of what appeared to 

 be a blind snake, and stated that he was present and 

 actually saw the animal being voided with the excrement 

 of the pedigree South Devon Cow D.O.A. 48. The speci- 

 men was sent to the Museum at Kimberley, where Mr. 

 J. H. Power kindly identified it and declared it to be 

 Monopeltis capensis, a legless lizard of the family 

 Amphistaenidae. Except for the head, which was 

 damaged, the animal was intact. How it came into the 

 digestive system of the cow can only be surmised, 

 especially since the lizard lives underground, and it 

 seems remarkable that the animal should have 

 travelled the whole length of the cow's intestines (which 

 according to Hering are about 150 feet long) without 

 having been injured more than was actually the case. 



R. Bigalke. 



Before reading Mr. Barker's note on the tending by 

 ants of certain Membracids, I observed the following, 

 which it may be of interest to record : — 



