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Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., read a paper on the classification of the 
Cervide, and gave a synoptical list of the existing species of this family. 
A second paper by Sir V. Brooke contained the description of a new species 
of Gazelle from Eastern Africa, which the author proposed to name 
Gazella Walleri, after its discoverer, Mr. Gerald Waller. 
Professor A. H. Garrod read a paper on the anatomy of Indicator major, 
and showed that, as regards its soft parts, as in its Osteology, Indicator is 
not related to the Cuckoos, but to the Barbets and Toucans. 
A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, containing 
the eleventh of his contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines. 
The present paper gave an account of the collection made by Mr. A. H. 
Everett at Zamboanga, in the Island of Mindanao. Ninety-eight species 
were obtained in this locality by Mr. Everett, of which eleven were new to 
the Philippine Fauna, and six were new to Science. 
Mr. E. R. Alston read some notes supplementary to his paper on the 
Squirrels of the Neotropical Region. 
December 3, 1878.—RoBert Hupson, Esq., 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 November, 1878, and called 
special attention to two examples of Horsfield’s Tortoise, T'estudo Horsfieldi, 
from Turkestan, presented by Dr. A. Strauch, C.M.Z.S., of the Imperial 
Museum of St. Petersburg, and a small Blue Maccaw, apparently 
referable to Spix’s Maccaw, dra Spiai, and new to the Society’s Collection. 
Mr. H. Seebohm exhibited a series of specimens of the Hooded and 
Carrion Crows, and made remarks on their intermediate forms and 
geographical distribution. 
Colonel L. H. Loyd Irby exhibited and made remarks on the nests, 
eggs, and young of Cypselus pallidus, taken at Gibraltar. 
Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited and made remarks on some eggs of 
Indian Laride, Sterna bergit and Larus hemprichi, which had been taken 
by Captain Butler, of H.M.’s 83rd Regiment, on the Mekran coast. 
Dr. F. Day exhibited and made some remarks on some jaws of Indian 
Sharks belonging to the genera Galeocerdo and Carcarias. 
The Secretary called attention to an error which had been made in 
reference to the collection of butterflies from Billiton, reported on by 
Messrs. Godman, Salvin, and Druce, in the last part of the Society’s 
‘Proceedings.’ The collection had been made and forwarded to England 
by Hr. J. G. F. Riedel, of Koepang. 
Mr. Sclater communicated some further particulars respecting the 
occurrence in Lancashire of the specimen of the Black-throated W heatear, 
Sawicola stapazina, exhibited at the last meeting of the Society. 
