1100 The Zoologist — February, 1868. 



Mr. St. George Mivart read some additional Dotes on the osteology of Lemumhe, 

 in continuation of a former communication on this subject. 



Dr. J. Hector communicated a notice of the discovery of an egg of the great moa 

 (Dinornis gigantea) containing an embryo, found in the province of Otago, New 

 Zealand, at a depth of about two feet below the surface. 



Dr. Gray gave a description of a new spider monkey discovered on the affluents 

 of the Peruvian Amazon, by Mr. E. Bartlett, and proposed to be called Ateles 

 Barlletti. 



Messrs. Sclater and Salvin communicated a list of birds collected at Pebas, Upper 

 Amazon, by Mr. John Hauxwell, with notes and descriptions of new species. 

 Mr. Hauxwell's collection was staled to have contained 135 species, four of which 

 were considered to have been hitherto undescribed. 



Messrs. Sclater and Salvin likewise communicated a list of the first collection of 

 birds formed by Mr. H. Whitely, jun., in South-Western Peru, in the neighbourhood 

 of Lima and Arequipa. The series consists of upwards of fifty species, many of them 

 of great interest. 



Dr. Gray made some observations on the skins and skeletons of the rhinoceroses 

 in the British Museum. He believed that amongst these he had detected a skull 

 belonging to a species hitherto undescribed, and proposed to call it Rhinoceros 

 simocephalus. 



January 9, 1868.— Dr. Gray, F.R.S., V.-P., in the chair. 



Professor Newton exhibited the humerus of a large species of extinct pelican from 

 one of the Cambridgeshire fens, and stated that, in the opinion of himself and Mr. 

 Parker, it belonged to a young bird, and that consequently it was probable that, at 

 some remote period, the species not only lived but nested in this country. 



The Secretary exhibited, and made some remarks u|-on, a drawing of a new species 

 of Impeyan pheasant, taken from the original specimens lately purchased for the 

 British Museum. It has been named, by M. St. Hilaire, Lophophorus l'Huysi. 



Mr. Parker, F.R.S., read a paper on the osteology of the kagu {Rhinochetus 

 julatus), and after a critical examination of the structure, and a comparison of the 

 sternum, coracoids and clavicles, with the same parts in other species, he concluded 

 by observing that this bird might be regarded as the type of a distinct family, most 

 nearly allied to Psophia and Eurypvga. 



The Secretary read a note from Dr. Hartlaub and Mr. 0. Finsch, with reference 

 to a collection of birds from the Pelew Islands, and called attention to two new types 

 belonging to the Fauna of these islands, for which the names Psammathia Anna? and 

 Tephras Fiuschi were proposed. 



A communication from Lieut. -Col. Playfair was read by the Secretary, relating to 

 a collection of fishes made in Madagascar. Amongst these were two new species, and 

 it was proposed to name them Gobius Grandidieri and Mugil Sraithii respectively 

 after the naturalists who discovered them. 



Mr. Henry Adams communicated some descriptions of new species of shells 

 collected in Mauritius, as well as descriptions of some new species from other parts of 

 the globe. 



Mr. Bartlett exhibited the skin of an otter from Sumatra, which gave rise to some 

 discussion, on account of the singular appearance of the tail. As the skin lay upon the 

 table, with the fur downwards, it was observable that a narrow groove or furrow passed 



