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Show 856 MR. S. S. FLOWER O N T H E REFIILES A N D [Dec. 1, back tine and a larger portion of the serrated palm: the left horn being of normal growth. Mr. Holding also exhibited a singular case of complete symmetrical deformity in a pair of Roebuck's horns. Mr. H. E. 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 recorded 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 Warbler and promised to send it to him so soon as it was dry enough. Directly he received it M r. Southwell forwarded it on to Mr. Dresser. The scrub at Cley, 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, aud another was said to have been seen, but not obtained, in October 1875. Mr. G-atke 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 wdth 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 of Reptiles and Batrachians made in the Malay Peninsula in 1895-96; with a List of the Species recorded from that Region. By S T A N L E Y S M Y TH F L O W E R , 5th Fusiliers.1 {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 tbe Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1870, vol. xxxix. part ii. pp. 134-228, and 1873, vol. xlh. partii. pp. 111- 126), and by collections received in the British Museum from 1 Communicated by the PRESIDENT. |