PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 223 
ZooLoGicaAL Society oF Lonpon. 
April 1, 1879.—Professor W. H. Fuowrr, LL.D., F.R.S., 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 March, and called special 
attention to a young male of the Mule Deer of North America (Cariacus 
macrotis), presented by Dr. J. D. Caton, of Ottawa, Illinois, U.S.A.; and to 
a male Sumatran Rhinoceros, acquired by purchase, being the first example 
of this sex of the Sumatran Rhinoceros that the Society had yet acquired. 
An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by 
Mr. Carl Bock, respecting the habits of the Mountain Antelope of Sumatra 
(Capricornis sumatrensis), of which he had obtained a living specimen, 
destined for the Society’s collection. 
Mr. J. W. Clark exhibited and made remarks on a drawing of a Dolphin, 
belonging to the genus Lagenarhynchus, which had lately been taken off 
Ramsgate. 
Prof. Flower exhibited a coloured drawing of a young female of the 
common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis, lately taken off the coast of Cornwall, 
and made some observations on the published figures and geographical 
distribution of the species. 
The Birds’ eggs collected during the ‘ Challenger’ Expedition were 
exhibited. The series was stated to contain about 250 eggs, belonging to 
fifty different species. Amongst these were eggs of the Sheath-bill, Chionis 
minor, from Kerguelen, and of the Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans, 
from Marion Island. 
Prof. Mivart exhibited a figure of, and made remarks upon, a Kestrel 
with abnormal feet, in the collection of the Marquis de Wavrin, at Brussels. 
Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read an account of the collection of birds made 
by Mr. F. W. Burbidge in the Sooloo Islands. A new Jungle-fowl was 
described as Gallus stramineicollis, and a new Parrot as Tanygnathus 
Burbidgii. A second communication from Mr. Bowdler Sharpe consisted 
of a list of the birds of the Labuan Island and its dependencies, founded 
principally on the collections formed during the last four years by Governor 
Ussher and Mr. W. H. Treacher, but including also descriptions of a large 
number of eggs carefully collected by Mr. Hugh Low. One new species, 
Cypselus Lowi, was described. 
A communication was read from Mr. R. Collett, containing the descrip- 
tion of a new fish of the genus Lycodes, from the Pacific, which he proposed 
to call Lycodes pacificus. 
A communication was read from Prof. Garrod, containing an account of 
the variations in the trachea and tracheal muscles in the different forms 
of gallinaceous birds.—P. L. Scuarur, Secretary. 
