2872 The Zoologist — December, 1871. 



dead brother was something awful. Frogs are considered a great delicacy, 

 and as there are any number of them the adjutants have constant oppor- 

 tunity of gratifying this refined taste. On a rainy day they wade about the 

 plains, peering here and there, listenhig for a croak or watching for a ripple ; 

 one is spied, and down goes the long beak, a jerk sends froggy in the air, 

 all arms and legs, and facile est descensus Averni. I call frog-catching the 

 athletic sport of adjutants; they are very dexterous over it and never miss 

 a fair catch. They roost on the tops of the almond trees and on the higher 

 houses. On Government House, in the evening, may be seen over a 

 hundred, looking like sentinels as they march to and fro on the parapets. 

 They are very fond of ousting each other from favoured high positions : the 

 aggressor comes up at a rate of fifty miles an hour and brings himself up 

 with a few back-flaps on the vacated position, for the original occupier, 

 knowing that he must give way or be knocked over, makes a virtue of 

 necessity and glides away, either retui'uing to retaliate or going on to play 

 a similar trick on some one else. Among themselves they are pugnacious, 

 using beaks and wings with such effect that the latter are often broken, 

 when the bird is sure to die of starvation." 



The subject has been frequently written on, but the above account 

 appears to me to be a graphic one and worthy of being recorded. — J. H. 

 Gurney; October Zl, 1871. 



Rednecked Crebc iu Norfolk.— On the 30th of September a female was 

 shot at Wiutcrton ; its stomach was crammed with feathers from its own 

 plumage. A second bird, also a female, two or three days afterwards, at 

 Beeston Regis, near Cromer. Both birds had red necks, with no indication 

 of change. — T. E. Gunn. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



6 November, 1871.— Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' Second and Third Annual Reports of the Trustees of the Peabody 

 Academy of Science ; ' presented by the Academy. ' Record of American 

 Entomology for the Year 1800 ; ' ' On Insects inhabiting Salt Water ; ' 

 •Catalogue of the Phalacnidaj of California;' 'Bristle-tails and Spring- 

 tails:' 'List of Insects collected at Pebas, Equador, and presented by 

 Prof. James Orton;' 'The Early Stages of Ichneumon Parasites;' 'Mor- 

 phology and Ancestry of the King Crabs ; ' ' The Ancestry of Insects ; ' ' On 

 the Embryology of Limulus polyphemus ; ' ' The Caudal Styles of Insects 

 Sense-organs, i. e. Abdominal Antennae;' 'Abdominal Sense-organs in a Fly ; ' 

 'A Remarkable IMyriapod; ' presented by the Author, Dr. A. S. Packard, jun. 



