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Ciò del resto avrò opportunità di completare in altra mia più estesa 

 memoria, che con più comodo avrò cura di compilare. 



La Querquedula in discorso secondo il D eg land et Gerbe abita 

 le contrade orientali e settentrionali dell' Asia, la Siberia, i bordi del 

 lago Baikal e della Lena. Presso a poco simili sono le indicazioni da- 

 teci dal Schlegel, che ci dice essersi osservata nell'Asia transbaika- 

 liana, nell' Isola Formosa ed al Giappone. 



Modena, 3. Gennajo 1882. 



III. Mittheilimgen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



17th January, 1882. — The Secretary read a Report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the Month of Decem- 

 ber, 1881, and called special attention to a young male Guemul Deer [Fur- 

 cifer chilensis) , from Patagonia , and a Germain's Peacock-Pheasant [Poly- 

 plectron Germaini], which were new to the Society's Collection. — Prof. A. 

 Newton, F.R. S., exhibited (by favour of Messrs. Hallett and Co.) the 

 skin and bones of the trunk of an example of Notornis mantelli recently re- 

 ceived from New Zealand. This was stated to be the third example of this 

 almost extinct bird which had been yet obtained. — Mr. W. K. Parker, 

 F.R.S., read a memoir on the structure and development of the skull in the 

 Crocodilia. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas gave an account of a series of Rodents 

 lately collected by Mr. Stolzmann in Northern Peru. The chief interest in 

 the collection was stated to lie in the fine series of Mice of the genera Hespe- 

 romys and Holochilus contained in it. — A communication was read from 

 Mr. T. E. Buckley on the variability of plumage exhibited by the Red 

 Grouse. — A communication was read from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, Jun., 

 containing descriptions of some new species of Shells in the collection of Mr. 

 J. Cosmo Melvill. — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read descriptions of several new 

 or rare species of Asteroidea contained in the collection of the British Mu- 

 seum. — A communication was read from Mr. W. L. Distant, containing 

 the characters of some undescribed species of Cicadidae from the Australian 

 and Pacific regions. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of London. 



19th January, 1882. — Sir John Lubbock Bart, F. R. S. in the 

 chair. There was exhibited for Mr. W. Bancroft Espeut an albino specimen 

 of Bat [Molossus obscurtis Geoff. ) from Jamaica ; Albinism in the Cheiroptera 

 being said to be extremely rare. — Dr. J. Spencer Cobb old called atten- 

 tion to living examples oî Leptodera shown under the microscope. — Mr. W. 

 Percy S laden read a paper on the Asteroidea of the , Challenger' Expedition, 

 part I. Family Pterasteridae. After some preliminary remarks and a synopsis 



