PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 113 
ZooLoeicaL Society or Lonpon. 
February 6, 1877.—Osperr Savin, Esq., F.R.S., 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. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on some unnoticed characters in 
the original and unique specimen of Comrie’s Manucode (Manucodia Comrii, 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1876, p- 459). 
Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a specimen of the Panay Sooty Tern 
(Sterna anestheta), which had been obtained on the English coast, and was 
the first recorded occurrence of this bird in the British Islands. 
Dr. A. Ginther read a memoir on the Tortoises collected by Commander 
Cookson, R.N., during the visit of H.M.S. ‘Peterel’ to the Galapagos 
Islands. The main results of Commander Cookson’'s visit consisted in 
giving us a knowledge of the Tortoise of Abingdon Island (Testudo Abing- 
doni) and of the Tortoise of the North of Albemarle Island (J. microphyes). 
A communication was read from Mr. Robert Collett, containing an 
account of his observations on Phylloscopus borealis, as met with on the 
Varanger Fjord and adjacent parts of Finmark. 
Mr. Sclater read a note on an apparently new species of Spur-winged 
Goose of the genus Plectropterus, proposed to be called P. niger, founded on 
two examples living in the Society's Gardens, which had been presented to 
the Society by Lieut.-General A. V. Cunningham. 
Prof. A. H. Garrod read a paper on the mechanism of the invertebral 
substance and on some effects resulting from the erect position of man. 
A communication was read from Sir Victor Brooke, containing notes on 
the small Rusine Deer of the Philippine Islands, and giving the description 
of a new species proposed to call Cervus nigricans, of which a female example 
was recently living in the Society’s Gardens. 
A paper by Mr. O. Salvin and Mr. Ducane Godman was read, giving the 
description of twelve new species and a new genus of butterflies from 
Central America. 
Dr. Ginther gave an account of the Zoological Collection made during 
the visit of H.M.S. ‘ Peterel’ to the Galapagos Islands, which had been 
worked out by himself and his assistants in the Zoological Department of 
the British Museum. 
Mr. R. B. Sharpe communicated the description of a new species of 
Pheasant of the genus Lobiophasis and of a new species of Pitta from 
the Lawas River, N.W. Borneo. Mr. Sharpe proposed to call the former 
L. castaneicaudatus, and the latter, Pitta Ussheri.—P. L. Sclater. 
