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comprimes et éviscérés, d'JÏ. Polii et j'avais dû accepter, sans pouvoir 

 les vérifier, les assertions de Lamp e rt et de Ludwig. Depuis lors, 

 j'ai profité de différents séjours au bord de la Mediterranée pour re- 

 cueillir de nombreux échantillons d'^. Polii et j'ai pu m'assurer que 

 cette espèce, pas plus que V H. tuhulosa à laquelle elle est 

 fréquemment associée, ne possédait d'organe de Cuvier. 

 Lyon-Monplaisir, 24. Novembre 1897. 



II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



L Zoological Society of London. 



16th November 1897. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

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

 July, August, September, and October 1S97. — The Secretary read some 

 notes, made by Mr. A. Thomson, Head-Keeper, on the breeding of two 

 species of Glossy Ibis [Plegadis gnarauna and P. falcwellus) in the Society's 

 Gardens, and made remarks on the differences in their plumages. The Se- 

 cretary also exhibited an egg of the Brazilian Cariama [Cariama crisiata)^ laid 

 in the Society's Gardens, and read some notes made by Mr. A. Thomson, 

 Head-Keeper, on the breeding of this bird. — Mr. S dater gave an account 

 of some of the more interesting animals observed by him during a recent 

 visit to the Zoological Gardens of Cologne, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and 

 Berlin. — A note was read from Messrs. Oldfield Thomas and R. Lyd- 

 ekker, stating that during the preparation of their paper on the dentition 

 of the Manatee, published in the last part of the 'Proceedings", an important 

 memoir by Dr. C. Hartlaub on the subject, in which some of their conclu- 

 sions had been anticipated, had been overlooked. — Mr, R. Lyddekker, 

 F.R.S., exhibited a skin of the Blue Bear of Tibet [Ursus pruinosus), de-^ 

 scribed and figured in the Society's 'Proceedings' (P.Z.S. 1897, p. 412, 

 pi. xxvii.), and a sketch of the Altai Deer [Cervus eustephanus) taken from a 

 specimen in the menagerie of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. — A 

 communication by Mr. George P. Mudge, ''On the Myology of the Tongue 

 of Parrots ", was read by the author. Specimens of six different species of 

 the Psittacidae had been examined, and a detailed description of the muscles 

 of each of them was given in this paper. — A communication from Mr. E. 

 T. Browne, F.Z.S., "On British Medusae," was read. It was a continuation 

 of a previous paper, entitled " On British Hydroids and Medusae," published 

 in the 'Proceedings' for 1896. Eight species were treated of at length. — Dr. 

 A. G. Butler enumerated the species (138 in number) contained in three 

 consignments of Butterflies collected in Natal in 1896 and 1897 by Mr. 

 Guy A. K. Marshall, F.Z.S., and gave the dates of the capture of the spe- 

 cimens, the localities where they were found, and other interesting notes con- 

 cerning them. One new genus [Chrysoritis) and one new species [Cacyreus 

 Marshalli) were described. — A communication from Mr. Edgar R. Waite, 

 of the Australian Museum, Sydney, "On the Sydney Bush-Rat [Mus arbori- 

 cola, W. S. Macleay),'' was read. It treated of the habits of the animal in a 

 wild state and of its anatomical characters. — A third portion of a paper on 

 the Spiders of the Island of St. Vincent, by Mons. E. Simon, was commu- 



