4386 Tue Zootocist—M arcu, 1875. 
February 16, 1875.—Georcr Busk, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society’s menagerie during the month of January, 1875, and called parti- 
cular attention to the following animals:—1. A silver-backed jackal (Canis 
chama, Smith) presented to the Society's collection by Mr. H. N. B. Good, 
who had obtained it at the Diamond Fields, Griqua-land. 2. A banded 
cotinga (Cotinga cincta, Bodd.) from Bahia, purchased January 18, and 
believed to be the first example of any species of this magnificent group of 
birds that had reached Europe alive. 3. A young Australian cassowary 
(Casuarius australis), from Northern Queensland, presented by the Marquis 
of Normanby, being the first example of this cassowary received in a living 
state. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a drawing of a supposed new rhinoceros from the 
Terai of Bhootan, which had been forwarded to him from Calcutta, by Mr. 
W. Jamrach, who possessed the animal alive, and intended bringing it to 
England. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a living specimen of the 
Peguan tree shrew (Tupaia peguana) which had been presented to the 
Society by the Hon. Ashley Eden, Chief Commissioner at Rangoon, British 
Burmah. This was believed to be the first specimen of a living Tupaia of 
any species that had reached Europe. 
Mr. A. H. Garrod read a paper on a point in the mechanism of the bird's 
wing, which renders it so specially adapted for flight. 
Mr. Sclater read remarks on the cassowaries now living in the Society's 
gardens, amongst which were representatives of five different species. One 
of them from the south of New Guinea was believed to be new to science, 
and proposed to be called C. picticollis. Mr. Sclater also gave notice of a 
new cassowary obtained in the Aroo Islands by Signor Beccari, and trans- 
mitted to the Museo Civico of Genoa, which he proposed to call Casuarius 
Beccarii. : 
Professor Owen communicated a note on the discovery of the remains of 
various species of Dinornis in the Province of Otago, New Zealand. 
Mr. Edward R. Alston read a paper on Anomalurus, its structure and 
position, in which he came to the conclusion that this peculiar form of 
rodents should be either referred to the Sciurine group of rodents as a 
distinct sub-family, or placed next to it as a separate family—Anomaluride. 
Mr. H. E. Dresser read some notes on the nest and eggs of Hypolais 
caligata, and on the egg of Charadrius asiaticus, and made remarks on the 
latter species, and on Charadrius veredus. 
Mr. R. Bowdler-Sharpe communicated a paper on the birds of Labuan, 
in which was given an account of a collection made in that island by Mr. 
John Low. 
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