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5 Robed Snakes * (Tropidonotus stolatus, Boie). 
2 Fishing-Snakes (Zropidonotus piscator, Schneid.). 
1 Rayed Snake * (Coluber radiatus, Schleg.). 
1 Condanar Sand-Snake * (Psammophis condanarus, Merr.). 
2 Well-spotted Snakes * (Dipsadomorphus multimaculatus, 
Boie). 
2 Olivaceous Water-Snakes* (Hypsirhina enhydris,Schneid.). 
1 Aulic Snake * (Zycodon aulicus, Linn.). 
In reference to this collection I have received the following 
notes from Mr. Bligh :—“ These reptiles were all obtained in the 
Minbu and Mague districts of Upper Burma. I held the post of 
Executive Engineer P. W. D. of the Minbu district, and obtained 
them by offering rewards to Burman villagers. After a few cash- 
payments had been made ‘on delivery,’ these people became very 
keen in hunting in the jungle for specimens. I had even house- 
spiders and earthworms brought by small children. Of course, 
the general impression was that the ‘Thakin’ was decidedly 
demented, but at present was harmless. The Burman villagers 
have a great deal to do in the neighbouring woods, and conse- 
quently have a good knowledge of animals. The Land-Tortoises 
were principally obtained in the low-wooded hilly country near 
Taungdwingyi, Mague district, and were hunted down by dogs, 
which bayed on finding the quarry. The Snakes and Lizards were 
generally noosed with horsehair nooses at the end of a long 
bamboo. ‘The natives were a great deal more afraid of the Verti- 
cillated Geckos than any others. One or two men ina village could 
always be found equal to capturing the Snakes by depressing 
the head with the end of a stick or fork, and seizing it by the 
neck.” 
Mr. Sclater gave an account of some of the more interesting 
animals observed in the Zoological Gardens of Antwerp, Cologne, 
Diisseldorf, Hanover, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam, 
which he had visited in June last. 
In Antwerp, under the kind guidance of M. L’Hoest, he had 
examined the first living example he had ever met with of the very 
beautiful African Monkey, Cercopithecus brazze (see P.Z.S. 1893, 
p. 448, pl. xxxiii.), from the Congo. This species somewhat 
resembles C. diana in its long white beard and white haunch- 
stripes, but had in life a pale blue nose, besides its conspicuous 
red front. Other mammals noticed at Antwerp were a pair of 
Mountain Zebras (Equus zebra); a true Burchell’s Zebra (#. bur- 
chelli typicus) without any markings on the legs ; a pair of Sea-lions 
(Otaria californiana), with a young one lately born; and a pair of 
the smaller Buffalo of Western Africa (Bubalus pumilus). The 
pair of Hippopotamuses had now bred eight years in succession, 
and reared their young one in nearly every case. Among the birds 
noticed was a hen Westermann’s Cassowary (Casuarius westermannt) 
in fine plumage. 
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