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Würzhurg, den 24. April ISS7. 



Prof. Dr. C. Semper, 

 Director des Zool.-zoot. Instituts in Würzburg. 



3. Zoological Society of London. 



lô*-'' March, 18S7. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February 

 1S87, and called attention to a Burmeister" s Cariama [Chiwc/a Burmeisteri), 

 received in exchange February 24^''; a White-fronted Heron [Anlea novœ- 

 Iiollandiœ) , from Australia, presented by F. B. Dyas, Esq. ; a young speci- 

 men of a Black-winged Kite [Elaiius cœndeiis) , taken from the nest by Mr. 

 R. Southey, of Southfield, Plumstead, Cape of Good Hope, and received 

 February 28*^*^; and to two Gloved Wallabies [Halmatin-us irma), received 

 in exchange from the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Melbourne, 

 February 28^^. — Mr. Howard Saunders, F.Z.S., exhibited a young male 

 Harlequin Duck [Cosmonetta histrionica) , shot off the coast of Northumber- 

 land on the 2"^ December last, and remarked that it was the second authen- 

 tic British-killed specimen in existence. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., 

 read a paper on the Bats collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon 

 Islands. The localities at which Mr. Woodford collected were chiefly Alu, 

 in the large Shortland Island, and the adjoining small island of Fauro. The 

 collection contained twenty-three specimens belonging to ten species, of 

 which two were new to science. One of these, which represented also a new 

 genus of Pteropine Bats, was proposed to be called Nesonycteris Woodfoidi. 

 — A communication was read from Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, F.Z.S. , 

 containing an account of the birds collected by Mr. CM. Woodford at 

 Fauro and Shortland Islands, in the Solomon Archipelago, and in other 

 localities of the group. Mr. Grant proposed to name a new Crow of the 

 genus Macrocorax, obtained in the island of Guadalcanar, after its dis- 

 coverer M. Woodfordi. — A communication was read from Mr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, F.Z.S., containing a second contribution to the Herpetology 

 of the Solomon Islands. It gave an account of a collection made chiefly at 

 two localities, Fauro Island and Alu, Shortland Island, by Mr. Woodford. 

 Seven species were described as new to science, amongst which was a new 

 genus and species of Batrachians of the family Ranidae, proposed to be 

 called Batrachylodes vertebralis. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., read a 

 paper describing the milk-dentition of the Koala [Phascolarctos einej-eus), 

 which was shown to be in the same state of reduction as had been described 

 by Prof. Flower in the case of the Thylacine. — A second communication 

 from Mr, Boulenger contained a description of a new Gecko of the genus 

 Chondrodavtylus from the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, based on a specimen 



