124 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Feb. 16, 
The five species may be easily distinguished as follows :— 
1. C. seychellarum. \ ) 
(Seychelles.) | 
} Belly black. 
2. C. niger. | 
(N.E. Borneo.) ) ¢ Tail entirely black. 
3. C. mindanensis. Belly white. 
(Philippine Islands.) ) 
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4, C. amenus. Belly black. 
(Jaya, Borneo.) 
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5. C. saularis. Belly white. : : 
(Ceylon, India, Assam, ee tail-feathers white. 
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to Malay Peninsula, and 
China, Andaman Islands, 
Sumatra, Java, Borneo.) 
February 16, 1886. 
Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of January 1886 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of January was 97. Of these 9 were by 
birth, 64 by presentation, 12 by purchase, 8 by exchange, and 4 were 
received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 
same period, by death and removals, was 118. 
‘The most noticeable additions during the month were :— 
1. A Many-marked Snake (hagerrhis multimaculata), presented 
by the Rev. G. H.R. Fisk, C.M.Z.S., and received January 1, 1886. 
Amongst several collections of the Snakes of the Cape Colony lately 
received from our excellent correspondent is a single small example, 
about a foot long, of this species, as kindly determined for us by 
Dr. Giinther. It is the Coronella multimaculata of Smith (Illust. 
Zool. of South Africa, pl. 61), but properly referable to the genus 
Rhagerrhis of Peters (Monatsb. k. Preuss. Ak. Wissen. Berlin, 1862, 
. 274). 
‘ 2: ight Tree-Snakes, born alive in the Society’s Reptile House, 
on the 9th of January. The mother, a fine example of Dryophis 
prasina, presented by Dr. F. H. Bauer, C.M.Z.S., of Buitenzorg, 
Java, was received on the 15th of August last, so that she must 
have been for upwards of five months without any possibility of 
intercourse with a male of the same species. The young ones were 
all born on the same day at irregular intervals between 11 a.m. and 
4.30 p.m. They were removed to another case, where they quickly 
