4770 THE ZooLoGist—JANUARY, 1876. 
of New Guinea, opposite Yule Island: Dr. Finsch proposed to call this 
bird Goura Scheepmakeri, after Mr. C. Scheepmaker, of Soerabaya, who 
had transmitted a living specimen of it to the Zoological Gardens, 
Amsterdam. 
December 7, 1875.—Gronrcer Busk, 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, and called particular 
attention to a female Beisa Antelope from Eastern Africa, presented by the 
Sultan of Zanzibar, and received November 8th, 1875; also to two all-green 
Tanagers from Brazil, purchased 16th November, 1875, which were new to 
the collection. 
Mr. Sclater read an extract from a letter addressed to him by Mr. H. A. 
Wickham, on the occurrence of the large blue Hyacinth Macaw near 
Santarem, on the River Amazons. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a skin of Hypocolius 
ampelinus, Bp., obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford, in Upper Scinde, to the 
west of Shikarpur. 
Professor Owen read the twenty-second part of his series of memoirs on 
Dinornis. This part contained a restoration of the skeleton of Dinornis 
maximus. 
Mr. J. W. Clark read a paper on the Eared Seals of the Islands of 
St. Paul and Amsterdam, to which he added a description of the Fur Seal 
of New Zealand from specimens kindly furnished by Dr. Hector. Mr. Clark 
further read copious extracts from the narratives of the older explorers in 
these seas, and attempted to reconcile the notices given by them with the 
subsequeut descriptions of naturalists. 
A communication was read from the Rey. R. Boog Watson on the generic 
peculiarities of the distinctively Madeiran Achatinas of Lowe. 
A communication was read from Dr. Hermann Burmeister, Director of 
the National Museum, Buenos Ayres, containing the description of a new 
species of Dolichotis, which Dr. Burmeister proposed to call Dolichotis 
salinicola. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford communicated particulars respecting some large 
stags’ horns, obtained by the Expedition to Western Turkestan, to which 
the late Dr. Stoliczka was attached as naturalist, said to have been brought 
originally from the Thian Shan Mountains. These horns were of very large 
size, each measuring fifty-one inches in length round the curve. Mr. Blan- 
ford, considering that these horns clearly showed the existence of a species 
hitherto undescribed, gave a full description of them, and proposed to give 
the name of Cervus eustephanus to the animal to which they belong. 
Dr O. Finsch communicated some notes on Phcenicomanes Lora, Sharpe, 
and Abrornis atricapilla, Blyth, and pointed out that the first-named bird is 
