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(iii) A case of coloured plaster casts of the local poisonous 
snakes. 
(iv) A specimen of the King- Cobra, or Hamadryad, Naia 
hungarus^ 14 feet 4 inches (4*36 metres) in 
leno^th, said to be a record for Travancore. • 
(v) Very good coloured plaster casts of the Frog, Bana 
hexadactyla^ and of the Toad, Bufo parietalls. 
And many nice plaster casts, coloured from life, of local 
fish, among the most striking being : — 
(vi) Zygaena tudes^ a species of Hammerheaded Shark. 
(vii) A specimen of the harmless Giant Shark, Bliinodon 
typicus^ from Trivandrum, February, 1909, 13 
feet 7 inches (4T4 metres) in length. Another 
fish of this species was once beached at Tri- 
vandrum which was 29 feet (8*83 metres) long. 
“ This shark has been said to exceed fifty 
feet in length, and some authors even assert 
seventy.” ( Vide Hay, ‘‘ Fauna of British 
Indies,” Fishes, I, 1889, p. 29.) * 
(viii) A Kay, Bhinohatus granulatus. 
(ix) Bhynchohatus ancylostomus^ the curious Mud- Skate. 
Two models, one of a dark adult, one of a pink 
youngster with conspicuous black marks. 
(x) Bhynchohatus djeddensis^ the Djedda Mud- Skate. 
Two models, an adult and a young specimen. 
Menagerie. 
The collection of monkeys included a large male Mias or 
Orang-Utan, Simia satyrus^ and a specimen of the Nilgiri 
Langur, Semnopithecus johni. The Trivandrum Zoological 
Garden holds some good records of longevity ; thus a Bonnet 
* A Sha'k of this species, forty-five feet long, was captured on June 1., 1912, near 
Knight’s Key, Florida, Vide “New York Zool. Soc. Bulletin,’' XVI, No. (>0, Nov. 
1913, page 1047. 
