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Ophidia. 
52. Epicrates striatus (Fisch.) San Domingo Tree Boa. 
Hab., San Domingo. 
One specimen. Purchased. 
53. Grotalus scutulatus Kenn. Kennicott's Eattlesnake. 
Hab., northern Mexico ; southwest United States. 
One specimen, received August 24th from E. Meyen- 
berg, Pecos, Texas, is clearly referable to Kenni- 
cott's description and is quite distinct from other 
rattlesnakes of that region. 
Other accessions of especial interest may be referred to : 
A tawny rough-legged buzzard and an Aplomado falcon 
received in March from Pecos, Texas. 
On March 15th Miss Sabina Loeb presented five Sagra's 
lizards {Anolis sagrx) from Cuba. 
A pair of Arctic foxes from Iceland were presented May 
28th by Carl Griibnau, Wyncote, Pa. In view of the 
statement made forty years since by Prof. Alfred Kewton, 
that in Iceland Canis lagopus rarely undergoes a seasonal 
change in color, it has been of interest to observe that at 
the date of their arrival the male was in the brown sum- 
mer coat and has carried it unchanged through the winter, 
but the female was in the usual white winter coat and has 
so remained throughout the year. 
Eight three-toed box tortoises ( Terrapene triunguis) from 
Louisiana were received in May from the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, and on June 3d four coypus rats arrived 
as a gift from the New York Zoological Society. 
An example of Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha, a snake not 
often represented in the collection, was received on July 
4th from Seymour, Baylor County, Texas, a locality which 
seems likely to be about the northern limit of its range. 
On August 29th Mr. Harry Nuding presented a valuable 
collection of mammals and birds, numbering twenty -nine 
specimens, brought by him from the Amazon. Some of 
these were new to the collection and have been already 
mentioned. Among the others were a gray lagothrix 
