4578 : Tue ZooLocist—Aveust, 1875. 
the second example of this hitherto little-known species now alive in the 
Gardens. 
7. Two Jameson’s gulls (Larus Jamesoni) from Sydney, New South 
Wales, presented by Mr. C. Moore, May 28th, being the first examples of 
this beautiful species we have received alive-—P. L. Sclater. 
Proceedings of Scientitic Societies. 
ZooLocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
June 15, 1875.—Professor Newron, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 
chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Menagerie during the month of May, 1875. 
A letter was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, stating that having 
enquired into the statement made by Mr. Bruyn,—that he had specimens of 
four species of birds of paradise alive in his possession at Ternate,—he had 
ascertained that the foundation for this statement was that Mr. Bruyn 
expected to receive specimens of other species, but had only actually obtained 
examples of one of them (Paradisea Papuana). 
Mr. George Dawson Rowley exhibited and made remarks on some speci- 
mens of two diminutive parrots from New Guinea—Nasiterna geelvinkina, 
and N. pygmea. 
Sir Victor Brooke exhibited and made remarks on two original drawings 
by Mr. Wolf of the two species of koodoo—Tragelaphus strepsiceros and 
T. imberbis. The latter was taken from a specimen received direct from 
the Juba river, Somali. The exact habitat of this species had not before 
been determined. 
Professor Owen read a paper in which he gave the descriptions of some 
bones of Harpagornis Moorei, sent to him by Dr. Haast, which had been 
found in the turbary deposits of Glenmark, a locality about forty miles 
from Christchurch, New Zealand. ‘This paper formed the twenty-first part 
of Professor Owen's series of memoirs on the extinct birds of the genus 
Dinornis and its allies. 
Mr. G. E. Dobson communicated the descriptions of some new species of 
bats of the genus Vesperugo. 
A communication was read from Mr. George Gulliver, containing ob- 
servations on the sizes and shapes of the red corpuscles of the blood of 
vertebrates. These observations were accompanied by a series of 
drawings’ of these objects, and by extended and revised tables of 
measurements. 
