ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDOiN.' 



February 5tb, 1918. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmcil. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the 

 Menngerie in the months of jSTovember and December, 1917. 



Mr. D. Seth Sivrixn, F.Z.S., Curator of Birds, exhibited and 

 made remarks on a series of lantern-slides made from photo- 

 graphs of Reptiles taken in the Gardens, directing special 

 attention to those showing feeding habits of the Black Ciibo 

 {Oxyrhopus cloelia), which attacks and devours poisonous snakes. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Thos. E. Whitehead 

 containing observations on the Avild Dingo of Australia. 



A paper by Professor B. L. Buatia and Baini ^Prasiiad 

 (communicated by Lieut.-Colonel J. Stephenson, D.Sc, I. M.S., 

 F.Z.S.), entitled the " Skull of liana tigrina Daud., was read. 



Mr. G. A. BouLBNGER, F.R.S., F.Z.S., presented his paper 



entitled " Descrij)tion of a 

 from Upper Bui-ma." 



new Snake of the genus Oligodon, 



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