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Da diese Fragen, wie mir scheint, nur mit Unterstützung weiterer 

 Kreise beantwortet werden können, habe ich sie in einem Fragebogen 

 zusammengestellt , welcher mit gefälliger Genehmigung des Herrn 

 Professor Ehlers durch das letzterschienene Heft der Zeitschrift für 

 wissenschaftliche Zoologie verbreitet wurde. 



Sollten sich einige Zoologen, denen mein Fragebogen nicht zuge- 

 gangen ist, für die Angelegenheit interessiren, so würde ich ihnen sehr 

 gern Exemplare desselben zur Verfügung stellen. 



Ich gestatte mir hinzuzufügen, dass meine Fragen 

 sich durch einfache Beobachtungen an den in den zoo- 

 logischen Museen conservir ten Exemplaren erledigen 

 lassen. Dr. Th. Weyl, 



Januar 1882. Docent a. d. Univers. Erlangen (Bayern). 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



3rd January, 1882. — Mr. W. A. Forbes exhibited and made remarks 

 on the Horns of the Prong Buck [Antilocapra americana) lately shed by the 

 specimen living in the Society's Gardens. This was, it was believed, the 

 first instance on record of the same individual having shed its horns in cap- 

 tivity in two consecutive years. — A communication was read from Prof. 

 Owen, C.B., on Dinornis (Part XXIII), containing a description oî Dinornis 

 parvus, a new species of about the size of the Dodo, of which a very com- 

 plete skeleton (now in the British Museum) had been lately discovered in a 

 cavern in the province of Nelson, New Zealand. — A communication was 

 read from M. L. Taczanowski, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of the 

 Birds collected by Mr. Stolzmann during his recent journey in North-eastern 

 Peru, with descriptions of some new species. — A communication was read 

 from Mr. Martin Jacoby, containing the descriptions of three new genera 

 and fourteen new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from various locali- 

 ties. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper on the African Mungooses [Her- 

 pestinae) , in which he reduced the described species of this group to nineteen, 

 divisible into seven genera. — The Rev. Canon Tristram read the descrip- 

 tion of a new species of Land-rail obtained at Ribè, East Africa, by Mr. R. 

 C. Ramshaw, which was proposed to be named Crex suahilensis. — Mr. W. 

 A. Forbes read a paper on the existence of a gall-bladder in, and on other 

 points in the anatomy of, the Barbets and Toucans [Capitonidae] . The pe- 

 culiar form of the gall-bladder in these birds, as well as other features in 

 their myology now described for the first time, were stated to make the rela- 

 tionship of this group to the Woodpeckers [Plcidae] , still more certain than 

 it had previously been from the observations of Nitzsch. Kessler, Garrod, 

 and others. — P. L. Sciate r, Secretary. 



3. Linnean Society of London. 



1. December, 1881. — Mr. J. Harris Stone exhibited specimens of 

 the dried plant and made remarks on Lychnis viscaria as a trap for Ants . He 



