A specimen of a marine snake {Pelamys bicolor) presented to the 

 Museum by the Rev. William White, Wesleyan Missionary to the 

 New Zealand Association, and which, with several others, had been 

 picked up dead upon the beach on the west coast of that country, 

 was upon the table ; also another portion of the birds collected by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq., to which Mr. Gould in continuation drew the 

 attention of the Members. 



