PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES OF LONDON. 591 



in the middle island of New Zealand, hj Dr. David S. Price. The 

 Ciiemiornls was supposed to have been of about the same stature as 

 Bennett's Cassowary. The name chosen bore relation to the re- 

 markable size of the processes of the tibia in this form. — A note was 

 read by Professor Owen on the morbid appearances observed at the 

 post-mortem examiiiation of a King-Penguin, lately living in the So- 

 ciety's Grardens. Professor Owen attributed the death of the bird to 

 inflammation of the stomach and of the abdominal membranes im- 

 mediately external to it. — Dr. Grray communicated a revision of the 

 genera and species of Amphisb?6nians, with the description of some 

 new species in the collection of the British Museum. — Dr. Gray also 

 gave a notice of a new species of Australian Sperm AVhale, Catodon 

 Krefftii, in the Sydney Museum, founded on drawings and notes 

 communicated to him by Mr. Gr. Ki'efft, the curator of that estab- 

 lishment. — A paper was read by Mr. E. P. Eamsay, of Dobroyde, 

 New South Wales, containing notes on the habits of several species 

 of Cuckoos found in the vicinity of Sydney. — A description was read 

 by Mr. Gr. French Angas, of a new species of shell from Port 

 Jackson, proposed to be called Gouldia australis. — A paper was read 

 by Mr. A. Gr. Butler, containing descriptions of six new species of 

 Exotic Butterflies, in the collection of the British Museum. 



June IWi, 1865. 



The Secretary exhibited a photograph of a pair of Gayals {Bos 

 frontalis), intended for transmission to the Society by Mr. "W. Dunn, 

 of Akyab, Corr. Memb., and made some remarks on several interest- 

 ing living animals lately added to the Society's Menagerie. The 

 Secretary also exhibited some specimens of a Plumming bird {Helio- 

 master angelce), transmitted to him by Dr. Burmeister, Eor. Memb., 

 and read some notes by Dr. Burmeister on the changes of plumage 

 exhibited by this bird. — A paper was read by Professor Allman, 

 E.E.S., on the characters and affinities of Potamogale, a genus of 

 insectivorous mammals recently discovered in AVestern Africa. Pro- 

 fessor Allman came to the conclusion that this singular form was 

 more closely allied to SoJenodon than to any other known genus, 

 but that it presented such striking peculiarities as would render it 

 necessary to regard it as the type of a new family of Insectivora, to 

 which the name of Potamogalidse might be given. — Mr. W. H. Plower 

 communicated a Note on the Australian Cetacean, lately described 

 by him in the Society's Proceedings as Orca ineridionalis ; also a 



