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Ceylonese Python. Python reticulatus. Gray. 

 Aboma. Epicrates cenchris, Wagl. 



Viperine Snake. Coluber viperinus, Latr. 



Aldrovand's Lizard. Plestiodon Aldrovandi, Dum. et 



Bibr, 

 The Lifese. Zacholus austriacus, Wagl. 



In addition to these absolute novelties several rare species 

 have been replaced, which have long been desiderata to the 

 collection. 



Donations to the Menagbeie. 



In reporting the following list of Donations received 

 into the Menagerie, the Council cannot fail to inform the 

 Society that it does not include all the Donations pre- 

 sented since the last Anniversary. His Highness the late 

 Viceroy of Egypt transmitted information through the 

 Hon. C. A. Murray, in August last, that the collectors 

 whom he had despatched into Nubja had succeeded in 

 bringing to Cairo a male and female Giraffe, which his 

 aide-de-camp Col. Bonfort then held at the disposition of 

 the Society, together with a pair of Ostriches, a pair of 

 Antelopes, and a pair of Camels. As Col. Bonfort was 

 authorized to take chai'ge of these animals at Cairo until 

 the proper period arrived for their transmission to Europe, 

 it was considered by the Council to be most advisable that 

 they should not be moved until the winter had passed : 

 and a keeper has now been despatched to place himself 

 under the orders of the Hon. C. A. Mun-ay, H.M. Consul 

 General, in arranging their transport. This magnificent 

 gift of the late Viceroy, for which the Society is mainly 

 indebted to the influence of Mr. Murray, will be accom- 

 panied by a Lion presented by himself. The Council 

 feel that it is also due to the Hon. John Thomason, 

 Deputy-Governor of the North- West Provinces of Bengal, 

 to advert in this place to his gift of a Thibetan Wild Ass, 

 Equus polyodon, Hodgs., which was purchased by him at 

 Almorah, transmitted to Calcutta, and shipped at his ex- 

 pense for the Society ; although unfortunately it did not 



