270 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
of the human sphenoid bone, in which he attempted to show that the basi- 
temporals of the bird are not homologous with the lingule sphenoidales, 
but with the so-called pterygoid bones of the Crocodile, and that the human 
lingule are homologous with the sphenotic of the bird. 
Mr. Edgar A. Smith read a report on a collection of shells, chiefly land 
and freshwater, obtained by Mr. H. B. Guppy, R.N., Surgeon H.M.S. ‘ Lark 
during a recent visit to Solomon Islands. 
June 16, 1885.—Prot. W. H. Frower, LL.D., V.-P.R.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 May, and called attention to 
four Pucherau’s Guinea-fowls, Numida pucherani, from Eastern Africa, 
presented by Commander C. E. Gissing, R.N., H.B.M. Vice-Consul at 
Zanzibar; and to examples of two species of Wild Cats of the genus Felis, 
presented by Mr. Frank Swettenham, acting British Resident of Perak, 
Malay Peninsula. ‘Two of the cats appeared to be young examples of 
Felis javanensis ; the third was a fine example of the rare Felis marmorata, 
remarkable for its long tail. 
The Secretary read some extracts from a letter addressed to him by 
Mr. J. Buttikofer, of the Leyden Museum, calling attention to a paper 
published in 1857 by the late Dr. Bernstein, concerning the material of 
which the edible birds’ nests of Collucalia esculenta are composed. 
A letter was read from Major-General Sir Peter Lumsden, K.C.B., 
giving details of the place and time of capture of two young Snow-Leopards 
sent down from the Afghan frontier to Quettah, and intended for the 
Society’s collection. 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited and remarked on a specimen of a rare 
burrowing Rodent, Heterocephalus glaber, procured by Mr. E. Lort Phillips 
during his recent expedition in Somali-land, remarkable for having an 
almost completely naked skin and for its extraordinary habits. 
Dr. Guillemard exhibited a series of eight skulls of the Kamtchatkan 
Wild Sheep, Ovis nivicola, pointing out the differences existing between it 
and O. canadensis. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited the skull and an imperfect skin of a 
supposed new species of Paradoxurus from the Pulnai Hills, 8. India. 
A communication was read from Dr. G. Hartlaub, giving an account of. 
a new species of Parrot of the genus Psittacula, recently received from 
Barranquilla, U.S. of Colombia, which he proposed to describe as Psittacula 
spengelt. 
Dr. Guillemard read the sixth part of his report on the collection ot 
birds formed during the voyage of the yacht ‘Marchesa.’ The present com- 
munication treated of the birds collected in New Guinea and the Papuan 
