5008 Tuer ZooLocist—Juty, 1876. 
interest about this nondescript bird, I wish to say that it has been lately 
lent to me, and that, after comparing it with a young Manx shearwater 
killed near Plymouth in the summer of 1868, and sent to me by Mr. Gat- 
combe, I am quite satisfied that that is what it is—viz., a Manx shearwater 
in the immature plumage, in which state it is certainly very rarely seen in 
collections,—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Proceedings of Scientitic Societies, 
ZooLocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
May 16, 1876.—Dr. A. Ginruer, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Dr. P. Comrie exhibited and made remarks on the zoological specimens 
collected by him during the Survey of the South-eastern coast of New Guinea 
by H.M.S. ‘ Basilisk.’ 
Dr. Giinther exhibited and made remarks on a collection of Mammals 
from the coast of Borneo, opposite to Labuan. Among these were especially 
noticed a young example of a monkey (Macacus melanotis) of which the 
exact habitat was previously unknown, and a new species of Tupaia, 
proposed to be called T. minor. 
Dr. Ginther also read an extract from a letter recently received from 
Commander Cookson, R.N., stating that he was bringing home from the 
Galapagos Islands a living pair of the large land-tortoise of Albemarle 
Island. Commander Cookson stated that the male of this pair weighed 
270 lbs., the female 117 lbs. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of a rare Pacific parrot (Coriphilus Kuhli), 
- which had been obtained by Dr. T. Hale Streets, U.S. Navy, at Washington 
Island, of the Palmyra group, and had been sent to him for examination by 
Dr. E. Coues. 
Prof. Martin Duncan read the second portion of a memoir on the 
Madreporaria dredged up during the expedition of H.M.S. ‘ Porcupine.’ 
Prof. Duncan also read descriptions of new littoral and deep-sea corals, 
from the Atlantic Ocean, the Antilles, the New Zealand and Japanese Seas, 
and the Persian Gulf. 
Prof. W. H. Flower read a paper on some cranial and dental characters 
of the existing species of rhiuoceroses. This paper contained the result of 
the examination of fifty-three skulls of rhinoceroses, contained in the 
Museum of the College of Surgeons and the British Museum, and described 
the principal characteristics of the five forms under which they could all be 
arranged, viz. :— 
1. Rhinoceros unicornis, Linn. (including R. stenocephalus, Gray); 
2. Ithinoceros sondaicus, Cuv. (including R. Floweri and R. nasalis, Gray); 
