4268' The Zoologist — December, 1874. 



Mr. Sclater gave an account of some visits he had recently made to several 

 Zoological Gardens and Museums in France and Italy, and made remarks 

 upon some of the principal objects noticed therein. 



Mr. G. Dawson Rowley exhibited, and made remarks upon, some rare 

 birds from New Zealand, amongst which were fine examples of Apteryx 

 Haasti, and a living pair of Sceloglaux albifacies. 



Mr. Wallace exhibited some rhinoceros horns, obtained in Borneo by 

 Mr. Everett, proving that this animal was still found living in that island. 



Mr. Gould exhibited a drawing of a new parrot, of the genus Aprosmictus, 

 recently obtained on the Darling Downs, in Queensland. Mr. Gould proposed 

 to call this bird Aprosmictus insignissimus. 



A letter from Mr. Swinhoe was read respecting some bats obtained by 

 him at Ningpo. 



A communication was read from M. L. Taczanowski, Conservator of the 

 Museum at Warsaw, in which he gave a list of the birds collected by 

 M. Constantine Jelski, in the central part of Western Peru. Amongst 

 these were eighteen species described as new to Science. 



A communication was read from Mr. Frederick Moore, giving descriptions 

 of some new Asiatic Lepidoptera. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. Gulliver, containing measure- 

 ments of the red corpuscles of the blood of the hippopotamus, of Otaria 

 jubata, and of the walrus. 



Mr. R. Rowdier Sharpe read a paper entitled " Contributions to a History 

 of the Accipitres or Birds of Prey." The first of this series contained notes 

 on the females of the common and South African kestrels. 



A communication was read from Mr. Henry Adams, giving descriptions of 

 some new species of shells from various localities, also of a new genus of 

 bivalves from the Mauritius. 



Mr. A. H. Garrod read a paper on points in the anatomy of the parrots 

 which bear on the classification of the sub-order. This memoir was based 

 upon the examination of a large number of individuals belonging to seventy- 

 nine species, chiefly from the Society's living collection, and contained a new 

 arrangement of the group, based principally upon the arrangement of the 

 carotid arteries, and the presence or absence of the ambiens muscle, the 

 furcula and the oil-gland. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, jun., giving the 

 descriptions of five new species of shells from different localities. 



A communication was read from Mr. E. P. Ramsay, wherein he described 

 five new species of Australian birds, and of the egg of Chamydodera 

 maculata. The birds described were Cypselus Terrse-Regince, ^lurcedus 

 maculosus, Ptilotis frenata, Eopsaltria inornata, and Rhipidura super 

 ciliosa. 



E. NEWMAN, PKINTER, DEVONSHIKE STEEET, BISHOPSGATE. 



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