1887.] MR. p. L. SCLATER ON TWO SPECIMENS Oi^ SNAKES. 639 



except the wings, which are black, 1 inch (2^ cm.) long, and some- 

 what curved. The small feathers of the throat on the under jaw 

 are whitish, with a darker spot in the middle ; there begins on the 

 throat the crimson-red bilateral beard, which is composed on both 

 sides of three rows of very small feathers, these becoming somewhat 

 larger in tbe middle of tlie beard and terminating with two ranges 

 of feathers in the exterior half. Many of these feathers are 

 shining metallic green in certain positions. A. white spot behind 

 the eyes descends from there to the breast, wbich is also whitish, but 

 with a dark spot on every feather, causing a greyish appearance in 

 the middle of the breast. The hinder half of tiie breast and the 

 belly are black, but the anal portion is white, and also the sides of 

 the body except the thighs, which are black. The inferior feathers 

 behind the anal region are clear yellow-brown, but those in the 

 middle have a green metallic spot. The tail is composed of eight 

 feathers ; the two exterior on each side are more than an inch long, 

 very small but of equal size in the whole extent, and rounded at the 

 tip, not pointed. The exterior rectrix is entirely black ; the second 

 has a clear brown stripe on the inner border. The third rectrix 

 of each side is very short, only half an inch long, and more than eight 

 lines shorter than the exterior ; its colour is entirely black. The 

 two middle tail-feathers are shorter thau the third pair, and partly 

 covered by the coverts ; they are of a metallic green colour like 

 the coverts. 



'■'Hah. A single specimen obtained in the mountains of Tncuman 

 (Valle de Tafi) is in the National Museum of Buenos Aires." 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a drawing of tliis bird sent by Dr. Bur- 

 meister, and stated that, after consulting Mr. Salvin and Graf v. 

 Berlepsch, he had come to the conclusion that it must belong to a new 

 species, for which he proposed the name Chcetocercus burmeisteri. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Major Yerbury, F.Z.S., a 

 pair of horns of the Oorial (Oy/s cycloceros) which formerly belonged 

 to the Royal Artillery Mess at Fort Attock, and were stated to have 

 been originally obtained in the Chitta Pahar Range a few miles south 

 of Attock. 



These horns were of unusual size, and, although they came from 

 the mountains on the left bank of the Indus, appeared to belong 

 to the form described by Mr. A. O. Hume as Ovis hlanfordi 

 (J. A. S. B. vol. xlvi. part 2, p. 327, 1877). 



The Secretary read an extract from a letter received from H. M. 

 Phipson, Esq., C.M.Z.S., of the Bombay Natural History Society, 

 relating to living specimens of two Snakes lately received at Madras. 



1 . A Trimeresuriis erythurvs, which had been caught on board a 

 timber-ship from Mouhnein in Bombay liaibour. 



2. An Ophiopha(/us bmiqarus, from the Canarese Jungles, which 



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