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( 'ontractionen scheinen aber trotzdem nur oder wenigstens vornehm- 

 lich) an dem Herzen stattzufinden ; über diesen Punkt sind neue Be- 

 obachtungen an lebenden Thieren, die mir zur Zeit nicht zur Verfügung 

 stehen, erwünscht. 



II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



3rd February, 1891. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

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

 1891; and called special attention to a Yellow-crowned Penguin [Eudyptes 

 initipodum), from Stewart Island, New Zealand, presented by Sir Henry Peek, 

 Bart., F.Z.S., new to the collection. — A letter was read from Dr. Emin 

 Pasha, C.M.Z.S., dated »Bussisi, October 6, 1890,« announcing the des- 

 patch to the Society of a collection of birds which he had made on his way 

 up from the coast. — The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J.W. Willis 

 Bund, F.Z.S., a specimen of the Collared Petrel [Oestrelata torqnata), which 

 had been shot off the Welsh Coast in Cardigan Bay in December 1889, and 

 Avas new to the British Avifauna. — A communication was read from Dr. 

 B-. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., containing remarks on the question of sauro- 

 gnathism of the Woodpeckers and other osteological notes upon that group. 

 — Count T. Salvadori pointed out the characters of two new species of 

 Parrots of the genus Platycercus, which he proposed to call P. xanthogenys 

 and P. erythropeplus, both believed to be from Australia. — Mr. P. L. 

 Sclater, F.R.S., gave an account of a collection of birds, from Tarapacà, 

 Northern Chili, which had been made for Mr. H. Berkeley James, F.Z.S., 

 by Mr. A. A. Lane. Fifty-three species were recorded as represented in the 

 series, amongst which was a new Finch, proposed to be called Phrygilua 

 coracinus. — Mr. F. E. Beddard gave an account of the pouch of the male 

 Thylacine, from a specimen recently living in the Society's Menagerie. Mr. 

 Beddard also described the brain of this animal, and pointed out its diffe- 

 rences from the brains of other Marsupials. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



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