856 mh. s. s. i'loweb on the beptiles and [Dee. 1, back tine and a larger portion of tlie serrated palm : the left horn being of normal growth. Mr. Holding also exhibited a singular case of complete sym-metrical deformity in a pair of Roebuck's horns. Mr. H. B. Dresser, at the request of Mr. Thos. Southwell of Norwich, exhibited a specimen of Pallas's Willow-Warbler {Phyl-loscopus proregulus), which he believed to be the first example of this species i-ecorded as having been obtained in Great Britain. It had been shot at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, by the son-in-law of Mr. H. N. Pashley, on the 31st October last, who at once informed Mr. Southwell that he had a new AVarbler and promised to send it to him so soon as it was dry enough. Directly he received it Mr. Southwell forwarded it on to Mr. Dresser. Q^he scrub at Oley, the spot where it was shot, was the place which had yielded so many rare migrants, the last of which was the Aquatic Warbler, and there also Mr. Pashley had obtained this specimen. Pallas's Willow-Warbler, though it occurred annually on the western slopes of the Ural, had only hitherto with certainty been known to occur further west on the island of Heligoland, where one was obtained in October 1845, and another was said to have been seen, but not obtained, in October 1875. Mr. Qiitke had proposed to separate the form breeding in Siberia from that breeding in the Himalayas, but Mr. Dresser, for reasons stated in his Supplement to the ' Birds of Europe,' p. 75, could not confirm this view. The present specimen, he remarked, agreed closely with an adult bird in his collection obtained at Kultuk, in Siberia, in the month of September. The following papers were read : — 1. Notes on a Collection o£ Reptiles and Batracliians made in tlie Malay Peninsula in 1895-96 ; with a List of the Species recorded from that llegion. By Stanley Smvth Flower, 5th Fusiliers.^ [Received October 15, 1896.] (Plates XLIV.-XLVI.) Since Dr. Cantor published his ' Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands ' in 1847, no general list has appeared : in his Catalogue mention is made of 106 species of Reptiles and Batrachians ; in this paper 210 species are listed. Our knowledge of the herpetological fauna of Malaya since Cantor's time has been added to principally in two valuable papers by Stoliczka in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1870, vol. xxxix. part ii. pp. 134-228, and 1873, vol. xlii. partii. pp. 111-126), and by collections received in the British Museum from ' Comimiiiiciilcd by the ruEsniisNT.
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