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to an example of the Short-nosed Perameles, Perameles obesula, purchased 
April 15th, being the first example of this marsupial which had been 
received ; to a young male Cape Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, presented by 
Mr. C. Ernest Pope, of Alice, Victoria East, South Africa, received April 
19th; and toa Koala, or Native Bear of Australia, Phascolarctus cinereus, 
purchased April 28th, being the first example of this peculiar marsupial 
that had veen brought alive to Europe. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of the Ibis, Geronticus comatus, lately 
obtained at Biledjik, on the Euphrates, by Mr. Danford, and made some 
remarks on its previously known distribution. 
Dr. A. Giinther read a note correcting the statement made by him at 
the meeting of the Society on the 20th January last, respecting the occur- 
rence of Holocanthus tricolor on the British coast. Further particulars 
received by Dr. Giinther had led him to decide that this fish could not be 
considered as having been caught on the British coast. 
Mr. W. A. Forbes read a note on the cause of death of a Leopard in 
the Society’s Menagerie. 
Mr. Dobson exhibited and made remarks on some bones of the Dodo, 
which had been transmitted from Mauritius in 1847-50, by Dr. F. Reid to 
Sir James Macgregor, aud having been deposited at Fort Pitt, Chatham, 
were afterwards removed to Netley Museum, 
Mr. F. Jeffrey Bell exhibited the immature specimen of Hechinolampas 
referred to by him in his communication on Palaolampas, pointing out its 
more differentiated characters, and suggested the possibility of its being an 
example of EH. oviformis. 
Prof. Flower called the attention of the meeting to the fact that a young 
specimen of the Lesser Fin Whale, Balgonoptera rostrata, 15 feet long, 
which had been taken off the coast of Cornwall, was now being exhibited in 
London. 
A communication was read from Prof. J. O. Westwood, containing an 
account of the species of Sawflies composing the Australian genus Perya of 
Leach. 
A communication was read from Dr. W. J. Hoffman on a supposed 
instance of hybridization between a Cat and a Lynx. 
Mr. W. A. Forbes read the second and third parts of his series of papers 
on the anatomy of the Passerine Birds. ‘These communications related to 
the syrinx and other points in the anatomy of the Hurylemide, and to the 
structure of Philepitta and its position amongst the Passeres. 
A communication was read from Mr. F. Day, in which he gave the 
description of a new Entomostracon from Afghanistan. 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper on a collection of Mammals brought 
from Ecuador by Mr. Clarence Buckley. Amongst these was a new species 
of Bassaricyon, proposed to be called B. Alleni. 
