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its length, 4 lines. Head, consisting of its two tubular bothria, about 7 
lines in length and 3 lines in breadth. Bothria smooth, cylindrical, 
arched outwardly, and connected together throughout their whole 
extent, and each of about the same diameter at the top as at the 
bottom. Upper openings circular and large; lower openings very 
small and quite terminal. Neck none. Articulations at anterior 
extremity extremely small, appearing like mere rugze. Articulations 
of rest of body, in adult specimens, very numerous, narrow, much 
broader than long, and crowded together; in smaller and apparently 
younger specimens (which, however, look as if perfect in length), the 
articulations near the posterior extremity are, comparatively speaking, 
much larger, longer than broad, and are more like those of B. laticeps 
or B. pythonis. The most distinguishing character is the size and 
shape of the head. 
Hab. Intestines of the Morelia spilotes, from Australia. (Mus. 
Brit.). 
oe the specimens of this species I am indebted to Dr. A. Giin- 
ther, who found them attached to the inner surface of the intestines 
of a specimen of an Australian Python, the Diamond-Snake, Morelia 
spilotes. 
January 24, 1865. 
E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed 
to him by Dr. Bennett, F.Z.S., dated Sydney, Nov. 18th, relating 
to a living specimen of the Lyre-bird of New Holland (Menura su- 
perba), which the Acclimatization Society of that city were intending 
to transmit by the first favourable opportunity to this Society :— 
“After repeated trials of keeping this wild and restless bird in 
captivity, and having procured and lost in one year numerous living 
birds of all ages, from the young bird to the adult, we have so far 
succeeded as to preserve one alive and in excellent health, and feed- 
ing well, since the 23rd of August last; to this day it continues 
in good health and condition. It is a young bird, at present in im- 
mature plumage, and the sex cannot yet be determined. It is placed 
in a large wire compartment with the Talegallas or Brush-Turkeys, 
and it appears to enjoy their society very much. Whether their com- 
pany reconciles it to confinement I cannot say ; but, at all events, it 
feeds well and thrives, and displays a great amount of activity for a 
great part of the day, running about the cage incessantly, scratching 
the ground. It feeds on the larva of the Tettigonia or ‘‘ Locust” of 
the colonists, meat chopped very small, slugs, and worms. This 
bird was captured at Broughton’s Pass, Illawarra district. Should 
we be fortunate enough to keep it alive by the time of the departure 
of the ‘La Hogue,’ it will be sent to the Zoological Society under 
