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toises; 2 Australian monitors; 5 Turk Islands iguanas; 6 Suri- 
nam amievas; 1 small African crocodile; a series of Australian 
poisonous snakes, including 5 purple death adders; 2 brown 
snakes; 3 tiger snakes, and 7 carpet snakes; 1 South American 
bushmaster; 1 green boomslange, (South Africa); 5 brown 
boomslange; 1 Cape cobra; 29 puff adders, and 30 mole snakes. 
All the South African specimens were brought to America by 
Mr. J. Alden Loring. 
Among the more important gifts received during 1916 were 
the following: A series of the representative poisonous snakes 
of Brazil, presented by Dr. Vital Brazil, Director of the Insti- 
tuto Serum-Therapico, at Sao Paulo; a collection of timber rat- 
tlesnakes, copperhead snakes, also non-venomous snakes, pre- 
sented by A. L. Gillam and E. L. Bell; and a collection of Florida 
reptiles, presented by Messrs. Gillam and Bell. 
From Kalacoon, the Society’s Zoological Station in South 
America, in charge of Curator Beebe, the department received 
a series of turtles, lizards, snakes and amphibians. 
The following is a census of the collection of reptiles and 
amphibians compiled on December 31, 1916: 
Species Specimens 
Crocodiliages cn = ae 5 69 
Chelomiar eo" 2 Bae 29 158 
Wacentilia: wee ee 20 55 
ONG ee eee ee ee 49 266 
Amphibians: 26 ee S85 234 
MOCal sie eee eS Pe 138 782 
SUMMARY OF COLLECTIONS. 
A census of the animals in the Zoological Park, taken Janu- 
ary 1, 1917, is as follows: 
Species Specimens 
Miananinaallisaaect oe ae ee. 207 617 
Br CS eee te we a 816 2,788 
Reptiles and Amphibians 98 782 
