THE ZooLocist—JUuUNE, 1876. 4963 
Proceedings of Scientite Societies, 
ZooLoaicaL Society or Lonpon. 
May 2, 1876.—Rozertr 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 April, 1876, and called particular attention to a 
collection of Angolan animals, presented to the Society by Lieut. V. R. 
Cameron, the celebrated African traveller. Lieut. Cameron-had also brought 
with him two chestnut-backed colies from the River Daude, presented to the 
Society by Mr. Henry C. Tait. Two young cassowaries, from Duke of York 
Island, presented by the Rev. George Brown, had also been received. Some 
other birds sent home by Mr. Brown had died on the passage. 
Mr. G. Dawson Rowley exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of 
Macherirhynchus nigripectus, from New Guinea, believed to. be the first 
example of this rare bird which had reached this country. 
Extracts were read from several letters received from Dr. George Bennett, 
giving some account of the proceedings of Mr. L. M. D’Albertis, and of his 
recent expedition up the Fly River in December, 1875. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., exhibited and made remarks on an example of 
the lesser whitefronted goose, from Egypt, being the first record of the 
occurrence of this species in Africa. - 
Mr. Osbert Salvin exhibited and made remarks on a piece of a trunk 
of a pine from Guatemala, which had been perforated by a woodpecker 
(Melanerpes formicivorus), for the purpose of storing acorns. 
Mr. A. Grote exhibited and made remarks on Col. Gordon’s drawing of 
Ovis Polii, which was the original of the figure given in the Society’s 
‘ Proceedings’ for 1874. 
Mr. George Busk read a memoir on the Ancient or Quaternary Fauna 
of Gibraltar, as exemplified in the mammalian remains of the ossiferous 
breccia, which occurs in the caves and fissures recently explored in different 
parts of the Rock. Mr. Busk, after a preliminary description of the 
geological features of the Rock and its fossiliferous caverns and fissures, 
treated specially of the various bones of the bear, cat, horse, rhinoceros, 
stag, ibex, and other animals, of which the remains occur there, and 
proceeded to refer them to the species to which they seemed to belong. 
Prof. A. H. Garrod read a paper on the anatomy of the colies (Colius), 
which he regarded as belonging to the piciform group of the division of 
anomalogonatous birds, according to his arrangement, but constituting an 
independent family. 
A communication was read from Mr. E. L. Layard, containing the descrip- 
tion of a new blackbird (Turdus), from Taviuni, one of the Fiji Islands. 
