720 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [ Dec. 19; 
collection. Mr. Garman writes to me as follows concerning this 
collection :— 
“‘T ship by steamer leaving Boston, October 21, a box containing 
6 Holbrookia maculata, 5 Sceloporus undulatus, var., 8 Phrynosom1 
douglasti, 3 Pityophis sayi, 3 Crotalus confluentus, and | Eutenia 
parietalis, from South-western Dakota; aud 1 Cistudo virginea from 
N.E. Massachusetts. 
“The Holérookiais common in certain localities in South-western 
Dakota and North-western Nebraska. It is found on dry sandy 
flats and hills of the Uplands. 
** Sceloporus is found in the same section, but generally along 
grassy banks on the edges of gullies, in situations more moist than 
those chosen by the preceding. 
“* Phrynosoma was numerously represented here and there in re- 
stricted localities near Sceloporus and Holbrookia. Most often it 
was found on the sunny slopes along depressions that had been 
water-courses in the spring. Like the Holbrookia, they choose the 
hottest and dustiest places they can find. Their food in August 
consisted principally of ants and Coleoptera. 
“ Pityophis sayi, the ‘ Bull Snake,’ is a common Serpent among 
the sand-hills of Western Nebraska. 
** Crotalus confluentus was common in the Mauvaises Terres, but 
rare in the sand-hills. Residents asserted that they did not occur 
there; but the discovery of three specimens afterwards proved these 
assertions to be inaccurate. 
“‘ Hutenia parietalis is the common Water-Snake of the Dakota 
bad lands. They were so tame as to take fish from our sides when we 
were fishing, and would not let go even when the fish was taken in 
hand and shaken vigorously. Box Turtles are rarely met with so 
far north, though they have been taken in Maine.” 
The following species in Mr. Garman’s collection are new to 
us :— 
Holbrookia maculata, 
Sceloporus garmani, sp. nov.’ 
Phrynosoma douglassii, 
Tropidonotus sirtalis’. 
2. An Isabelline Lynx (Felis isabellina, Blyth*), presented by 
Capt. Baldock, R.A., and received November 23. Capt. Baldock, 
writing from Calcutta on the 30th of September, states that the 
Lynx was then some two or three months old, and had been 
obtained at Astor in Ballistan, about 100 miles north of Cashmere, 
from a villager. 
* Vide infra, p. 761, Pl. LVI. 
° Eutenia parietalis of Mr. Garman. 
° Mr. Elliot unites the Lynx of Tibet and the adjoining districts to F. lynx 
of Europe. But I think it rather doubtful whether this is correct, and prefer 
to leave it for the present under Blyth’s designation (J. A. S. B. xvi. pt. 2, 
p. 1178, et P. Z. S. 1863, p. 186). 
