8920 The Zoologist — March, 1874. 



Mr. George Busk read a paper on a new British Polyzoon, proposed to be 

 called Hippuria Egertoni, after Sir Philip Egerton, who had discovered it 

 growing upon the carapace of a specimen of Gonoplax angulatus, dredged up 

 at Berehaven in the course of last summer. 



Mr. Alfred Sanders read a series of notes on the myology of Phrynosoma 

 coronatum. 



A communication was read from Dr. Gray containing a description of the 

 steppe-cat of Bokhara, which he proposed to designate Chaus caudatus. 



Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., read a paper on Sclater's Muntjac and other 

 species of the genus Cervulus. In pointing out the distinctions which 

 characterize the three existing species, Cervulus Muntjac, C. Sclateri and 

 C. Reevesii, the author showed C. Sclateri, the species of most northern 

 range, to be intermediate in specific characters and size between the two 

 others. Sir Victor pointed out an advance in the specialization of the tarsus 

 of Cervulus not hitherto observed. In this genus the navicular, cuboid and 

 second and third cuneiform bones were anchylosed together and formed one 

 single bone, the first cuneiform being represented by a very small and 

 separate bone. 



A second paper by Sir Victor Brooke contained the description of a new 

 species of deer from Persia, a pair of horns of which he had received from 

 Major Jones, H.B.M. Consul at Tabreez in Persia, and which he proposed 

 to call Cervus mesopotamicus. 



Major H. H. Godwin Austin read a paper on some birds obtained by him 

 in 187'2-73 along the main water shed of the Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy 

 rivers. Of these ten were considered as new to Science, viz. : — Sitta 

 nagensis.Garrulaxgalbanus, G.albosuperciliaris,Trochalopteroucineraceum, 

 T. virgatum, Actinodura Waldeni, Layardia rubiginosa, Prinia rufula, Cisti- 

 cola munipurensis, Munia subundulata. 



Mr. Garrod made some remarks upon the morbid symptoms presented 

 by the Indian rhinoceros that had lately died in the Society's Gardens, and 

 upon certain points in its anatomy. 



Mr. Edwyn C. Reed communicated a paper on the Chilian species of the 

 Coleopterous families CicindelidoD and Carabidte. 



Jamiary 20, 1871. — Professor Newton, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited two skulls of Baird's tapir (Tapirus Bairdi) received 

 from Mr. Constautiue Richards, of Oaxaca, Mexico. The receipt of these 

 specimens proved that this tapir extended from Panama through Central 

 America into Southern Mexico, and was probably the oul}'^ species of this 

 genus to be met with in America, north of the Panamanic Isthmus. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited and made remarks on skulls of Ovis arkar, 

 from the Altai Mountains, and the stuffed skin of a specimen of the wild 

 ibex of Crete. 



