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III. Mittlieiluiigen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



4thApril, 1882. Mr. Sc la ter exhibited and made remarks on an example 

 of a rare Flycatcher [Cyanomyias coelestis) from the Philippines, which had been 

 sent to England for determination by Dr. Moesch, of Zürich. — Mr. S dater 

 also exhibited and made remarks on two specimens of the Subcylindrical 

 Hornbill [Buceros subcylindricus) which had been formerly living in the So- 

 ciety's Gardens. — Dr. A. Günther read the description of a new species 

 of freshwater Turtle from Siam, a specimen of which had been recently ac- 

 quired by the British Museum. The author proposed to name it Geoetnyda 

 impressa, from the peculiar shape of the principal upper plates, which are 

 not merely flattened, but distinctly concave. — Mr. W. A. F or bes read a 

 paper on the structure of the convoluted trachea of two species of Manucode 

 [Manucodia atra and Phony gama Gonidi) , and added remarks on similar con- 

 formations in the tracheae of other birds. — Mr. J. E. Harting read a 

 paper on the eggs of three species of wading-birds which had been obtained 

 by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan in the neighbourhood of Fianarantsoa in the 

 Betsileo country, Madagascar. The species to which these eggs belonged 

 were Glareola ocularis, Aegialitis Gcoffroyi, and Gallinago macrodactyla. Much 

 interest attached to these eggs, as not having been previously described. — 

 A communication was read from Mr. E. P. Ramsay, C.M.Z.S., contai- 

 ning the description of a supposed new species of Tephras, an example of 

 which had been obtained by the late Mr. S. White while collecting at the 

 Aru Islands. The author proposed to name it Tephras Whitei, after its dis- 

 coverer. 



18th April, 1882. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March, 

 1882, and called special attention to a Radiated Fruit-Cuckoo [Carpococcyx 

 radiatus] from Sumatra, purchased March 3 1st, and quite new to the So- 

 ciety's Collection. — Professor Flower read a paper upon the mutual affi- 

 nities of the animals composing the order Edentata, in which the usual 

 binary division into Phyllophaga (or Tardigrada) and Enlomophaga (or Vei-mi- 

 lingua) was shown not to agree with the most important structural charac- 

 ters. These, according to the interpretation put upon them by the author, 

 indicate that the Bradyjjodidae and Megatheriidae are allied to the Myrmeco- 

 phagidae^ and also, though less closely, to the Dasypodidae — all the Ameri- 

 can forms thus constituting one primary division of the order, from which 

 both the Manidae and Orycteropodidae of the Old World are totally distinct. — 

 A communication was read from Mr. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., introducing 

 a paper by Dr. van Dyck, of Beyrout, on the modification of a race of 

 Syrian street dogs by means of natural selection. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas 

 read an account of a small collection of Mammals made by Mr. A. Forrer 

 in the State of Durango, Central Mexico, in which examples of several nor- 

 thern forms not hitherto recorded so far south and several southern forms 

 not hitherto known so far north occurred. — A communication was read 

 from Mr. Edward Bartlett containing' notes on a collection of mammals 

 and birds formed by Mr. J. Hauxwell in the neighbourhood of Nauta, Elvira, 



