158 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Apr.12, 
veying their poison are neither so well adapted for this purpose nor 
in such a perfect connexion with the secretory mucous system as In 
Thalassophryne. ’ 
Finally, I have to add that neither Batrachus nor Porichthys has 
the spines perforated, and that also in Thalassophryne the poison- 
organ serves merely as a weapon of defence. All the Batrachoids 
with obtuse teeth on the palate and in the lower jaw feed on Mollusca 
and Crustaceans. 
April 12, 1864. 
E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Secretary announced the safe arrival by the ship ‘ La Hogue,’ 
on the previous day, of the living specimen of Diduneulus strigi- 
rostris, presented to the Society by Dr. George Bennett of Sydney, 
as announced in previous communications of that gentleman to the 
Society. 
By the same vessel several other species of interest had been re- 
ceived, amongst which were an Australian Pelican (Pelecanus con- 
spicillatus) and a Top-knot Pigeon (Lopholemus antarcticus), the 
latter having been presented to the Society by the Acclimatization 
Society of New South Wales. 
In the same vessel had been shipped from Syduey a living example 
of arare Parrot from the Feejee Islands—the Pyrrhulopsis splendens 
(Aprosmictus splendens, Peale, Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exp. i. p. 237, 
pl. 20), which had unfortunately died on the passage home. 
Mr. Sclater observed that four species of this peculiar greup of 
Parrots had been distinguished by Mr. Cassin, but that he was only 
acquainted with three of them, namely— 
1. P. personata, G. R. Gray, which had been twice alive in the 
Society’s Menagerie (see P. Z. S. 1862, p. 141, et P. Z.S. 1848, p. 21, 
pl. u11.). A specimen of this bird in the British Museum had been 
obtained by Mr. Rayner, the Naturalist of H. M.S. ‘ Herald,’ in the 
island of Viti Levu, Feejees. 
2. P. splendens, Cassin, l.c.; also, as stated by Mr. Peale, from 
Viti Levu, or Great Feejee Island. 
3. P. atrigularis, Peale, easily distinguishable from the last by its 
black throat ; and obtained by Mr. Rayner at Ngau Island, Feejees. 
The P. tabuensis, Gm., from the island of Tongataboo or Eooa, 
might probably be different from the two preceding, as also possibly 
the P. anna of authors. 
Dr. Crisp exhibited a wax cast of the tongue, larynx, trachea, 
heart, lungs, and thyroid gland of a young Lion at birth. This ani- 
