124 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Fcb.lfi, 



The five species may be easily distinguished as follows : — 



1. C. seychellarum. 

 (Seychelles.) 



2. C. niger. 

 (N.E. Borneo.) 



3. C. 7nindanensis. 

 (Philippine Islands.) 



4. C. amoenm. 

 (Java, Borneo.) 



6. C. saularis. 



(Ceylon, India, Assam, 

 to Malay Peninsula, and 

 China, Andaman Islands, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo.) 



^ 



J- Belly black. 



I 

 } 



Belly white. 

 Belly black. 

 Belly white. 



■ Tail entirely black. 



Outer tail-feathers white. 



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 {Bliagerrhis multimaculatd), presented 

 by the Rev. G. II. 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 Corone/la multimaculata of Smitli (lUust. 

 Zool. of South Africa, pi. 61), but properly referable to the genus 

 Rhayerrhis of Peters (Monatsb. k. Preiiss. Ak. Wissen. Berlin, 1862, 

 p. 274). 



2. Eight Tree-Snakes, born ahve 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 Buiteuzorg, 

 Java, was received on the I5ih of August last, so that she must 

 have been for upwards of five months vrithout 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 1 1 a.m. and 

 4.30 P.M. They were removed to another case, where they quickly 



