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Rudiment darstellte, und der Psalter war auch in rudimentärom Zustande 

 nur 4Y2 cm. Der Darmcanal war verhältnismäßig kurz, 12 mal der Kprper- 

 länge. Der Autor stellte diese Erscheinungen mit der Diät und den Lebens- 

 verhältnissen des Thieres zusammen. Die Leber war wenig getheilt, mit der 

 Gallenblase dicht neben der Fissura umbilicalis. Die Milz war dreieckig, 

 aber mehr länglich als beim Schaf. Die Nieren waren einfach mit einer Mam- 

 milla. Männliche Geschlechtsorgane denjenigen von Saiga ähnlich. Die 

 Urethra schnurförmig ausgezogen, aber nicht so viel wie beim Schaf. Die 

 Penisspitze von Cohus defassa (von Jägerskiöld aus dem Sudan mitgebracht) 

 war vollständig nach dem ovinen Typus gebildet. Der Penis von einer Ga- 

 zelle bildete in seiner äußeren Form eine Zwischenstufe von demjenigen 

 von Antilope und Schaf. Dr. Einar Lönnberg, 



Vorsitzender. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



December 3rd, 1901. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 hadbeenmade to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1901, 

 and called special attention to the young male Zebra which had been sent from 

 Abyssinia by the Emperor Meneiek as a present to the King, and had been de- 

 posited by His Majesty in the Society's Gardens. — Mr. Scia ter gave a short 

 account of the fine herd of Prjevalsky's Horse [Eqtms Prjevalshii) which had 

 recently been received at Woburn by His Grace the Duke of Bedford. — Mr. 

 W. E. de Winton, F.Z.S., exhibited a remarkably large specimen of the 

 Grey Mullet [Mugil cAelo), said to have been taken in the North Sea. — A 

 series of papers on the collections made during the ,,Skeat Expedition" to 

 the Malay Peninsula in 1899 — 1900 was read. Mr. F. G. Sinclair reported 

 on the Myriapoda, and enumerated the forty species of which specimens had 

 been obtained. Of these, nine were described as new to science. Mr, W. F. 

 Lanchester contributed an account of a part of the Crustacea, viz., the 

 Brachyura, Stomatopoda, and Macrura, collected during the Expedition, and 

 described six new forms. Mr. F, F, Lai dia w enumerated the Snakes, Cro- 

 codiles, and Chelonians which had been obtained, and described two new 

 species based on specimens in the collection. An appendix to these papers, 

 drawn up by Mr. W. W. Skeat, contained a list of names of the places vi- 

 sited by the members of the "Skeat Expedition". — Mr. F. E. Beddard, 

 F.R.S., read a paper "On the Anatomy and Systematic Position of the Painted 

 Snipe [Rhynchaeay\ based on an examination of specimens of this bird which 

 had lately died in the Society's Menagerie. The author was of opinion that 

 Rhynchaea was more nearly allied to the Parridae than to Scolopacinae. In a 

 second paper Mr. Beddard pointed out the structural differences between 

 the Common Snipe [Gallinago coelestis) and the Jack Snipe [G. gallinula). — 

 A communication from Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe contained an account of the 

 Birds collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his last expedition to 

 Lake Rudolf and the Nile. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., described 

 two new fishes under the names Phractura Ansorgit and Fundulus gularis, re- 

 cently discovered by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Southern Nigeria. — P. L, 

 S dater. Secretary. 



December 17th, 1901. A communication was read from Mr. G. Met- 

 calfe, M.A., of New South Wales, concer^iing the reproduction of the Duck- 



