262 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
and re-described two, Sciwrus rufo-niger, Pucheran, and 8. pusillus, Geoffroy, 
which had been recently overlooked. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a third collection of Birds 
from Duke of York Island, New Britain and New Ireland, which he had 
received from the Rev. George Brown. Amongst them was an example of 
a new Fruit-pigeon proposed to be called Carpophaga melanochroa. 
A communication was read from Dr. M. Watson, containing a description 
of the male generative organs of Chlamydophorus truncatus and Dasypus 
seaxcinctus. 
A communication was read from Professor Garrod on certain points in 
the anatomy of Levaillant’s Darter (Plotus Levaillunti). 
A communication was read from Messrs. Garrod and Turner on the 
gravid uterus and placenta of Hyomoschus aquaticus. 
A communication was read from Mr. Moore containing the descriptions 
of new Asiatic butterflies of the family Hesperiide. 
A second communication from Mr. Moore gave a list of the Lepidopterous 
Insects collected by the late Robert Swinhoe in the island of Hainan. 
A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, being the 
tenth of his contributions to the ornithology of the Philippines. The 
present paper gave an account of the collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett 
in the island of Bohol. The collection contained representatives of forty- 
seven species. Although all of these were previously known, seven of them 
had not been before recorded as being inhabitants of the Philippines. 
Dr. O. Finsch read the description of a new species of Starling from 
Lake Marka-kul, in the Chinese High Altai, which he proposed to name 
Sturnus Poltaratzskyi, after Gen. Poltaratzsky, Governor of Semipalatinsk. 
A communication was read from Mr. H. W. Bates containing the 
description of new species of Coleopterous Insects (Geodephaga and Longi- 
cornia) taken by the late Dr. Stoliczka during the Forsyth Expedition to 
Kashgar in 1873-74. 
A communication was read from Dr. G. Hartlaub in which he gave the 
description of a new species of Notauges (N. Hildebrandti) of Cabanis, M.., 
discovered by Mr. Hildebrandt at Ikanga in Ukamba, Eastern Africa. 
A communication was read from Lieut.-Col. R. H. Beddome, giving the 
description of a new Batrachian from Southern India belonging to the 
family Phryniscide, which he proposed to call Melanobatrachus indicus. 
Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., exhibited and made remarks on a fine head of 
the male Gazella Granti, originally described from sketches made by Capt. 
Speke during Speke and Grant’s Expedition. The present specimen had 
been shot by Mr. Arkwright about eighty miles from Ugogo, in Eastern 
Africa. 
A communication was read from Professor J. V. Barboza du Bocage, con- 
taining a list of the Antelopes observed in Angola. 
