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Show 230 THE FRINT OF A FORE FOOT OF AN INDIAN ELEPHANT. [Mar. 20, by the in-clrawing of the ventral scales, and it fell to the ground with the body rigidly held straight. Dendrophis formosus Boie and Dendrelaphis caudolineatus Gray also have hinged ventral scales, but it has never been reported to me that either of these species " flew," nor, indeed, can I claim to have satisfactorily established the " flight" of D. pictus; but it is certainly worthy of note that an independent witness should assert it of a species equipped with the same mechanism for a parachute flight as the two species of Chrysopelea. March 20, 1906. Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie in February 1906 : The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February were 112 in number. Of these 33 were acquired by presentation, 15 by purchase, 48 were received on deposit, and 16 in exchange. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 197. Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to : Three Red-handed Tamarins (Midas rufimanus) from Surinam deposited on Feb. 3rd. A Jaguar (Felis onca), <3, from South America, purchased on Feb. 22nd. A King Parrot (Aprosmictus cyanopygius), 6*, from Australia, presented by Miss Jessie Capes on Feb. 16th. A Masked Parrakeet (Pyrrhulopsis personata) from the Fiji Islands, purchased on Feb. 1st. A Red-throated Laughing-Thrush (lanthocincla rufigidaris) from British India, presented by Mr. R. Phillipps on Feb. 8th. New to the Collection. The Secretary exhibited a paper cutting representing the print of the fore foot of a very large wild Indian Elephant. The measurement was sixty-six inches in circumference, and had been taken by Mr. C. A. Sherring, Deputy Commissioner at Almora, India. Mr. Sherring believed that the measurement was a " record " and inferred that the Elephant, which was described as enormous and had been seen by several persons, stood 11 feet high at the withers. The Secretary mentioned that in the ' Records of Big Game,' published by Mr. Rowland Ward, one larger measurement had been given, that of a foot-circumference of 67| inches taken from a living Elephant under charge of Lieut.-Col. G. W . Hanson. The Secretary also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. John Bowes |