188 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
yet only four specimens of this rare bird of prey are known to exist, viz., 
the type in the Leyden Museum, one in Mr. Hume’s collection in India, 
one in the possession of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and one in the British 
Museum, presented last year by Captain Stackhouse Pinwell. 
ZOOLOGICAL Society or Lonpon. ~ 
February 20,1877.—Prof. Frowmr, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 
A communication was read from Professor Owen, C.B., containing 
some additional evidence recently obtained of the former existence in South 
Australia of extinct birds allied to the genus Dromornis. 
Mr. Osbert Salvin exhibited a series of drawings made during Hunter's 
voyage to Australia in 1788—92, wherein Duke of York Island as it then 
existed was depicted, together with various objects of Natural History, and 
offered some remarks on the geographical position and climate of this island, 
by way of preface to a series of papers by different authors on a collection 
of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects sent home by the Rev. 
George Brown from the island in question and the neighbouring parts of 
New Ireland and New Britain. 
Mr. Sclater read a paper on the birds in this collection, and described 
eleven species as new to Science, amongst which were a new Kingfisher, 
proposed to be called Tanysiptera nigriceps, and a new Pigeon, to which the 
name Maeropygia Browni was assigned. 
Dr. G. E. Dobson enumerated the Bats collected, amongst which four 
were considered to belong to undescribed species, and one of these to a new 
genus of the frugivorous Bats, proposed to be called Melonycteris. 
Mr. Edward R. Alston dealt with the Rodents and Marsupials in this 
collection, and pointed out that the species, six in number, were either 
identical with New Guinea forms or nearly allied. For three new species 
the names of Mus Browni, Uromys rufescens, and Macropus lugens were 
proposed. 
Messrs. O. Salvin and F. Du Cane Godman described the Lepidoptera, 
and found that the series of butterflies contained twenty-six genera and forty 
species, while in that of the moths eleven genera were represented by 
fourteen species. 
Mr. E. J. Miers enumerated the Crustacea, and stated that the collection, 
with one exception (Lysiosquilla arenaria), belonged to the Decapoda, and 
contained in all forty-four specimens representing sixteen species. Although 
none of the species were new to Science, several were interesting and little- 
known forms. 
Dr. A. Giinther read a paper on the Reptiles and Fishes in this collection. 
Of nine lizards, one was described as new, and of eleven snakes three were 
