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Society's ‘Proceedings’ for 1878, to which neither specific name nor 
locality had been assigned, was S. niger, and that its habitat was the 
Cameroons, from which place Dr. Peters had received specimens. 
Mr. Dresser read some notes on the Falco labradorus of Audubon, Falco 
sacer of Forster, and Falco spadiceus of the same author. 
Mr. A. Boucard communicated a monographic list of the Coleoptera of 
the genus Plusiotis of North America, and gave descriptions of several new 
species. 
A communication was read from Mr. H. P. Ramsay, giving descriptions 
of some rare eggs of Australian birds. 
Mr. G. B. Sowerby, jun., communicated the descriptions of ten new 
species of shells from various localities. 
Dr. A. Giinther communicated, on behalf of Dr. T. Thorell, of Upsala, 
descriptions of a collection of spiders made by Dr. Vinson in New Caledonia, 
Madagascar and Reunion, amongst which were a few new species. 
A communication was read from Mr. E. L. Layard, H.B.C. administering 
the Government of Fiji, giving descriptions of some supposed new species 
of birds from the Fiji Islands. 
Mr. A. H. Garrod read a paper containing the description of the lower 
larynx in some of the rarer species of Anatide. To this was added an 
account of the tracheal arrangement in Platalea ajaja, which differs much 
from that of the common spoonbill. Reference was also made to the manner 
of development of the tracheal loop in those of the Cracide which have 
recently died in the Society’s Gardens. 
March 16, 1875.—Dr. A. Gunruer, F.R.S., V.-P., in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Meuagerie during the month of February, 1875, and called 
particular attention to a Peguan tree-shrew (Tupaia Peguana), presented 
by the Hon. Ashley Eden, Chief Commissioner, Rangoon, British Burmah ; 
a Blanford’s squirrel (Sciwrus Blanfordi), presented by Mrs. Dunn; and 
four Quica opossums (Didelphys Quica), and a yellow-lored amazon (Chrysotis 
xantholora), acquired by purchase. 
Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a specimen of a gull obtained by Mr. 
Gervase Mathew, R.N., at Magdalena Bay, Lower California, closely 
resembling Larus fuscus, a species hitherto unrecorded from the New 
World. 
A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by Captain John Biddulph, 
containing remarks on the wild sheep met with during his recent journey 
to Yarkand. 
A letter was read from the Rey. J. S. Whitmee, of Samoa, South Pacific, 
giving particulars as to the occurrence of the palolo (Palolo viridis) on the 
shores of that island in 1874. 
