CONTENTS. 



I. Supplement to " A Synopsis of the Fishes of Madeira." By the Rev. R. T. Lowe, 



M.A., Corr. Memb. of the Zool. Soc page 1 



II. Notes on the birth of the Giraffe at the Zoological Society's Gardens, and description 



of the Fatal Membranes and of some of the Natural and Morbid Appearances ob- 

 served in the Dissection of the young animal. By Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S., 

 £fc 21 



III. Notice of a Fragment of the Femur of a Gigantic Bird of New Zealand. By Richard 



Owen, Esq., F.R.S., %c 29 



IV. Monograph of the Hollow-horned Ruminants. Part I. By William Ogilby, Esq., 



M.A., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., F.L.S. S,-c., Honorary Member of the Royal Zoological 

 Society of Ireland, and of the Societe Zoologique Natura Artis Magistra of 

 Amsterdam ; Secretary of the Zoological Society of London 33 



V. Description o/ Australian Fish. Part I. By Jomi Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. Sjc, 



Insepctor of Naval Hospitals, Haslar 69 



Description of Australian Fish. Part II. By John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. &)C., 

 Inspector of Naval Hospitals, Haslar 133 



VI. Observations on the Stenochoridse of New Holland, with Descriptions of New Genei'a 



and Species of that Family. By the Rev. F. W. Hope, Esq., F.R.S. , F.L.S. , 

 8fc 187 



VII. Description of a new Genus and Species of Sponge (Euplectella Aspergillum, 0.). 



By Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S., F.Z.S. &ic 203 



VIII. Description of some Coleopterous Insects from Tropical Africa, belonging to the 



section Heteromera. By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S. &'c 207 



IX. Me'moire sur la Famille des Touracos, et Description de deux Especes nouvelles. 



Par le Dr. Edouard Rijppell 231 



X. On Dinornis, an extinct Genus of tridactyle Struthious Birds, with descriptions of 



portions of the Skeleton of five Species which formerly existed in New Zealand. 

 '> By Professor Owen, M.D., F.R.S., F.Z.S. S^c 243 



