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remarkable for the extreme development of the wattles in the 

 adialt male in breeding-plumage. 



9. Two Striated Colies {Colius striatus), purchased March 20th. 

 These are the first examples of this Col)' j'et received ; thej' have 

 been placed in the Parrot House along with the specimens of 

 other species of the same genus. 



10. Two Gouldian Grass-Finches {Poephila gouldia:), both 

 believed to be of the male sex, presented by Mr. C. N. Eosenf eld, 

 April 18th, and new to the Society's Collection. 



11. Four Pucherans Guinea-fowls (Numida pucherani) from 

 Eastern Africa, presented by Commander C. E. Gissing, R.N., 

 H.B.M. Yice-Consul at Zanzibar. This fine species has not lately 

 been represented in the Society's series. 



12. A Spurred Chameleon (Chama'Jeon ccdcarifer), presented 

 by Major J. W. Yerbury, ll.A. Major Yerbury writes from 

 Aden (April 8th, 1885) that this fine Chameleon was caught a 

 few miles from Aden. 



13. A fine series of Australian Reptiles, received in exchange 

 from the Zoological Society of New South Wales on June 11th, 

 and containing examples of two species of Lizards and six species 

 of Snakes ; of the latter, three species (viz. Dtemenia psammophis, 

 Boploceplialus curtus, and Dendrophis punctulatus) were new to 

 the Collection. 



14. A collection of Javan animals, presented by Dr. F. H. 

 Bauer, of Buitenzorg, Java, C.M.Z.S., and containing examples 

 of an Owl (PhodUus badius) and of three Reptiles and a Batra- 

 chian, all new to the Society's series. 



15. A collection of North-American Reptiles, presented by 

 F. J. Thomson, Esq., amongst which were examples of the 

 Alleghany Snake, Coluber alleghanieiisis, new to the Society's 

 Collection. 



10. Several collections of Reptiles from the Cape Colony, pre- 

 sented by the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk, C.M.Z.S., amongst which was 

 an exami)le of a species of Elaps {Elaps Jn/gia') from Uitenhage, 

 Cape Colony, new to the Collection. 



17. An example of the Black-eyebrowed Albatross (Biomcdea 

 melanophrys), obtained in False Bay, Cape Colony, and presented 

 to the Society by W. Ayshford Sanford, Esq., F.Z.S. 



IS. A male hh-CGi^h {Gyncdurus jubatus), received December 

 8th, presented to the Society by Nawab Mirza Hassim Ali Khan, 

 of the Afghan Frontier Survey. A pair of feline animals cap- 

 tured, in November 1884, near the Istoi Pass on the Perso- 

 Afghan Frontier, when quite young, after the mother had been 

 shot, by some of the members of the Afghan Boundary Commis- 

 sion, were believed at the time to be Snow-Leopards {Felis 

 uHcia), and forwarded to Pisheen, where they were kindly kept 

 through last summer by Mr. H. J. Barnes, Political Agent at 



