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main relationship being indicated above, while other char- 
acters lead towards the tinamous and the plovers. The 
species added to the collection is from Australia. 
On the 30th of May Mr. C. A. Bradenburgh of the Arch 
Street Museum deposited in the Garden a few small ani- 
mals, among which was a squirrel monkey, which appears 
to me to be Chrysothrix lunulatus (Is. Geoff), though it seems 
doubtful if the animal is distinct from the better known 
species, G. sciurea. 
Through the kind interest of Mr. Harold Hanauer, of 
London, a number of European reptiles were received on 
the 8th of June. Among them were specimens of the 
European viper {Vipera berus) the common snake {Tropi- 
donotus natrix) and a number of newts belonging to the 
genus Molge : M. vulgaris, 31. marmorata, and M. montan- 
doni, the last being a rare species for which the Society is 
under obligations to Mr. G. A. Boulanger, of the British 
Museum. 
Two small guans received from Brazil on June 1 0th are 
Ortalida albiventris, and on the same day a female Indian 
gazelle {Gazella bennetti) arrived at the Garden. 
A specimen of the ring-ouzel {Turdus torquatus), one of 
the European thrushes, was added a few days later, and also 
a black -headed caica parrot (Caica melanocephala) from 
South America. 
Towards the close of the month various reptiles of some 
rarity were procured from dealers. Those which were for 
the first time exhibited, were the gigantic zonurus lizard 
{Zonurus giganteus), of South Africa ; the muricated lizard 
(Amphibolurus muricatus) from Australia, and specimens of 
one of our most beautiful native snakes Farancia abacura 
from Florida and Graham's water snake {Tropidonotus gra- 
hami) from St. Louis. 
On the eighth day of July two red-headed finches (Amadina 
erythrocephala) from South Africa were presented by Cap- 
tain Peter Brown. 
A specimen of the carinated tree boa ( Ungualia melanura), 
received on the 5th of August from Cuba, diff'ers materially 
