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described several new birds obtained by Mr. A. Goldie from tlie x\strolabe 

 Mountains. — J. Murie. 



Zoological Society of London. 



March 18, 1884.— Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.E.S., 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 February, and called special 

 attention to a young specimen of the Red-eared Monkey, Cercopithecus 

 erythrotis; a fine example of Martin's Monkey, C.Martini; and an example 

 of a rare Ichneumon from Ceylon, Maccarthy's Ichneumon, Herpestes 

 MaccarthicB, all new to the collection. 



Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited specimens showing a variation in the colour 

 of the feet of the Pink-footed Goose, Anser brachyrhynchus. 



A communication was read from Sir Richard Owen on the extinct birds 

 of the genus Diiiornis, forming the twenty-fifth of his series of memoirs 

 on this subject. The present paper gave a description of the sternum of 

 Dinornis elephantopus. 



Mr. J. B. Sutton read an account of the results of his investigations of 

 the more important diseases which affect the carnivorous animals living in 

 the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. J. W. Clark exhibited and read an account of three skulls of a 

 Sea-Lion from the east coast of Australia. The largest, that of an adult 

 male, had been exhibited, together with the stuffed skin, at the Fisheries 

 Exhibition last year, where it had been named Arctocephalus cinereus, Gray. 

 The object of the paper was to trace the history of the species, for which 

 the name Otaria cinerea had been suggested by Peron in 1816, and to show, 

 by comparison with the type skull at Paris, that these specimens had been 

 rightly referred to it. 



A communication was read from the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, in which 

 he gave descriptions of two new genera of Spiders, proposed to be called 

 Forbesia and Regillus. 



April 1, 1884.— Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Prof. Flower exhibited and made remarks on a series of skulls of the 

 Bottle-nosed Whale, Hyperoodon rostratus, illustrating the various stages 

 presented by this animal as regards the conformation of its skull in the 

 different ages of both sexes. Prof. Flower also exhibited, on behalf of 

 Messrs. Langton and Bicknell, a specimen of spermaceti obtained from the 

 head of the Hyperoodon. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on specimens of the eggs of 



