490 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Major 
S. W. Yerbury, respecting the exact locality of a Chameleon, Chameleon 
calcarifer, presented to the Society by that gentleman in June, 1885. 
Major Yerbury had obtained this specimen near Aden. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon two Newts, Molge vittata, 
transmitted to the Society by Dr. E. B. Dickson, of Constantinople, by 
whom they had been obtained from Brussa, Asia Minor, 
Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited and made remarks on a female specimen 
of the Kildeer Plover, Agialitis vocifera, killed, in January, 1885, by 
Mr. Jenkinson on the Scilly Isles; and a young female Desert-Chat, 
Savicola deserti, obtained near Spurn Head, Lincolnshire, in October, 1885. 
Prof. F'. Jeffrey Bell exhibited and gave an account of a specimen of a 
species of Balanoglossus obtained by Mr. Spencer at Herm, Channel 
Islands, being the first recorded instance of the occurrence of this Hemi- 
chordate in any part of the British Seas. 
Mr. F. E Beddard read the first of a proposed series of notes on the 
visceral anatomy of birds. The present paper treated of the so-called 
omentum of birds and its homologies. It was pointed out that this 
structure, present in many birds, but apparently absent, or only present 
in rudiment, in a few others, was represented by a structure having similar 
relations to the Crocodile, but in no other reptile. 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a description of Heterocephalus Phillipsi, an 
extremely remarkable burrowing Rodent from Somali-land, belonging to a 
genus of which the only known species was based upon a single specimen 
obtained by Riippell’s collector in Schoa. Mr. Thomas considered the 
affinities of this Rodent to be with Georychus and Bathyergus. 
Mr. Sclater read a paper containing a description of an apparently new 
species of Tanager of the genus Calliste, based on a specimen formerly in 
the Gould Collection, now iv the British Museum. He proposed to dedicate 
this bird to its former owner as Calliste Gouldi. 
Mr. Boulenger gave the description of a new Frog from Perak, Malacca, 
which he proposed to name Megalophrys longipes.—P. L. Sciarer, See. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
A Tour in Sutherlandshire ; with extracts from the Field-books of 
a Sportsman and Naturalist. By Cuarues Sr. Joun. Second 
Edition. With an Appendix on the Fauna of Sutherland, 
by J. A. Harvim Brown and T. KE. Buckiry. 2 vols. post 8yo. 
Edinburgh: D. Douglas. 1888. 
Tuer works of Charles St. John will always have place amongst 
favourite authors on the book-shelves of naturalists and sports- 
