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denen in stark besuchten Museen viele Beschauer neben und nach ein- 

 ander Platz finden. 



Kiel, den 8. Nov. 1881. 



3. Zoological Society of London. 



15th November, 1881. — The Secretary read a Report on the addi- 

 tions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of 

 June, July, August, September, and October 1881, and called attention to 

 certain interesting accessions which had been received during that period. — 

 Prof. Newton, F.R.S., exhibited a specimen oi Emberha rustica recently 

 shot on the coast of Yorkshire. — The Rev. Canon Tristram exhibited 

 and made remarks upon skins of a Darter and a Pigmy Cormorant procured 

 in June of this year on the Lake of Antioch. — Mr. S dater exhibited a 

 specimen of the Glossy Ibis [Plegadis falcinellus) belonging to Sir Henry 

 M il dm ay, Bart., which had been shot in Hampshire in September last. — 

 A communication was read from MM, L. Taczanowski et J. Stolz- 

 man n on the habits and various plumages of the rare Hummingbird Loddi- 

 gesia niirabilis. — Communications were read from M. L. Taczanowski, 

 C.M.Z.S., on two nearly allied species of Humming-birds of the genus Stega- 

 nura from Peru, and on a new species of Mustela from Northeastern Peru, 

 which he proposed to call Mustela Stolzmanni. — Mr. W. A. Forbes read 

 notes on the structure of the palate in the Trogons [Trogonidae], and on the 

 systematic position of Eupetes macrocercus . — A communication was read 

 from Mr. E. P. Ramsay, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of the true ha- 

 bitat of Pycnoptilus ßoccosiis, Gould. — A communication was read from Mr. 

 E. L. Layard, F.Z.S., containing a note on the South-African mollusk 

 Coeliaxis Layardi of Angas. — A communication was read from Mr. Edgar 

 A. Smith, F.Z.S., containing notes on the shells of the genus Chilina, 

 with a list of the known species. — Mr. Arthur G. Butler, F.Z.S., read a 

 paper on some Butterflies from Japan, with which were incorporated notes and 

 descriptions of new species by Montague Fenton. — Mr. H. J. Elwes, 

 F.Z.S., read a paper on the Butterflies of Amoorland, Japan, and Northern 

 China. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



IT. Personal-Notizen. 



N e c r I g. 



Am 21. October starb in Repton Mr. William Garneys, practischer 

 Arzt daselbst, geboren 1831 in Bungay. Er war der Verfasser der Fauna 

 and Flora of Repton und war bekannt als Concholog und Entomolog. 



Am 29. October starb in Wandsworth John Bickerton Blackburn, 

 geboren 1845 in Liverpool. Er war ein bekannter tüchtiger Lepidopterolog. 



Am 14. Novbr. starb zu Halle a. S. Dr. Chr. Gtfr. Andr. Giebel, 

 der bekannte, äußerst thätige Professor der Zoologie daselbst. 



Drnck von Breitkopf und Härte) in Leipzig. 



