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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 



Crocodilia 5 69 



Chelonia 29 158 



Lacertilia 20 55 



Ophidia 49 266 



Amphibians 35 234 



Total 138 782 



SUMMARY OF COLLECTIONS. 



A census of the animals in the Zoological Park, taken Janu- 

 ary 1, 1917, is as follows : 



Species Specimens 



Mammals 207 617 



Birds 816 2,788 



Reptiles and Amphibians 98 782 



Total 1,121 4,187 



