34 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
ZooLoaicaL Society or Lonpon. 
November 20, 1877.—Professor FLowrr, 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 October, 1877, and called special 
attention to a Layard’s Flying Squirrel, Sciwropterus Layardi, presented by 
Sir Charles Peter Layard, October 8th, and to a pair of East African. 
Buffaloes (Bubalus equinoctialis), purchased 27th October. 
Mr, Howard Saunders exhibited a specimen of the rare Aleutian Tern, 
Sterna aleutica, from Alaska, and made remarks upon its intermediate 
position between typical Sterna and the group of Sooty Terns (Ony- 
choprion). 
A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, containing 
an account of a collection of birds made by Mr. A. H. Everett in the Island 
of Zebu, Philippines. Six new species were found in this collection, and 
were named Oriolus assimilis, Phyllornis flavipennis, Zosterops Everetti, 
Prionochilus quadricolor, Turnix nigrescens and Megapodius pusillus. 
Three communications were read from Dr. O. Finsch. The first con- 
tained a report on a collection of birds made at Eua, Friendly Islands, by 
Mr. Ff. Hiibuer, which had increased our knowledge of the avifauna of Eua, 
from four to twenty-four species. ‘The second contained a description of a 
collection of birds made on the Island of Ponapé, Eastern Carolinas, by 
Mr. J. Kubary. The total number of species known at present from 
Ponapé was stated to be twenty-nine, of which seven were peculiar to the 
Island. The third contained a list of the birds obtained at Ninafou Island 
in the Pacific, by Mr. F. Hiibner. This collection raised the number of 
the known birds of this island from one to twenty. 
Prof. Garrod read notes on the Tenia of the Rhinoceros of the Sunder- 
bunds, Plagiotenia gigantea; on the anatomy of the Chinese Water Deer, 
Hydropates mermis; on the possible cause of the death of a young Seal ; 
and on the occurrence of a gall-bladder in certain species of Parrots. 
Mr. Howard Saunders read a paper on the Larida, collected during the 
voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger,’ which comprised nine species of Sterne, 
five of Larid@, and three of Stercorarina, altogether seventeen species, 
represented by forty-seven specimens; several of these were very rare in 
Museums, although none of them were absolutely new to science. 
A communication was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, containing some 
additional proofs of the fact that the Red Helecti are the females of the 
Green species of that genus. 
A paper was read by Mr. G. French Angas, containing “ Notes on 
Helix sepulchralis of Ferrusac and its allies, with Descriptions of two new 
Species.” 
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