274 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Ranellacea, Muricidm, Scalariidce, and Solariidcc. With a few remarks 

 from the President, concluding the session, the meeting adjourned till the 

 2nd November. — J. Murie. 



Zoological Society of London. 



June 6, 1882.— Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



The Secretary called the attention of the meeting to the curious way in 

 which the young Cormorants lately hatched in the Gardens were fed by 

 the parent birds, and exhibited a drawing by Mrs. Hugh Blackburn 

 illustrating this subject. 



A communication was read from Prof. St. George Mivart, containing a 

 series of observations on certaiu points in the anatomy of the Cat tribe 

 (JEluroidea). 



Mr. Howard Saunders read a paper on some Larida collected by 

 Capt. H. H. Markham, R.N., on the coasts of Peru and Chili, comprising, 

 amongst other rarities, the third known example of the large Fork-tailed 

 Gull (Xema furcatum), a species which had been vainly sought for on the 

 Pacific coast of America for upwards of thirty years. The author drew 

 attention to the peculiarities distinguishing the various species of Gulls 

 found in the Pacific from those of the rest of the globe ; and pointed out 

 that, owing to oceanic currents, the connection between the species now 

 only found on opposite sides of the equator had evidently been much more 

 recent in the Pacific than in the Atlantic. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a paper containing an attempt to apply a 

 method of formulation to the species of the Comatulida, and added the 

 description of a new species, which he proposed to call Aetinometra 

 aiuntlatd. 



Mr. Francis Day read some notes on the supposed identity of a specimen 

 of a fish determined by Dr. Gunther as Anyuilla Kieneri with a Gadoid 

 Lycodes. 



Mr. E. J. Miers read the second portion of his paper on the Crustaceans 

 received by the British Museum from the Mauritius; and called special 

 attention to what appeared to be a variety of Palinurm longimanus, of the 

 West Indies, which occurred in it. 



Mr. W. A. Forbes read the fifth of his series of papers on the anatomy 

 of the Passerine birds. The present communication was devoted to the 

 consideration of the structure of the genus Orthonyx, which was shown to 

 be a true Oscinine form. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited and made remarks on a Stonechat (Saxicola) 

 which he had obtained during a recent expedition to the Auras Mountains 

 of Algeria. 



