1864.] DR. P. L. SCLATER ON BENNETT'S CASSOWARY. 271 
this animal lately read, I did not find them. In the Leucoryx that 
recently died at the Gardens after parturition * they were not present, 
but there was a small agminated gland in the cecum (as seen in the 
drawing). In the Sondaic Ox (Bos sondaicus) I found no glands of 
this description ; but, strange to say, in the cecum of the Jaguar 
(Felis onca) I have recently discovered a great number of agminated 
crypts that occupy as large a space as those described in the young 
Giraffe, and bear a greater resemblance to the glands named in this 
animal than in any I have yet seen. The subject of intestinal glands 
in the lower animals is one at present but little understood, and affords 
a wide and interesting field of inquiry for future investigators. 
June 28, 1864. 
Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Dr. P. L. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to the two 
young Bennett’s Cassowaries recently hatched in the Society’s Gar- 
dens. In some notes on the method of incubation amongst the Stru- 
thious birds, read before the Society last year+, Dr. Sclater had already 
recorded the facts relative to the breeding of this bird in former years. 
In this year copulation commenced in the beginning of March, and 
continued almost daily until the 26th of April, the two birds being 
put together for that purpose every morning by the keeper. Six 
eggs were laid in all, at intervals of from ten to twelve days, the last 
being laid two days after the male had commenced to sit. This 
event took place on the 28th of April. One young bird was hatched 
on the 20th of June, and another on the 22nd. These may be now 
seen thriving in company with the male, who has the sole care of 
them, the female having been removed entirely away from them. 
Dr. Sclater also exhibited and made some remarks on the skeleton 
of the original typical example of Bennett’s Cassowary (Casuarius 
bennettii), received by the Society in 1857, which was about to be 
deposited in the British Museum. 
The Secretary read the following note from Mr. R. Swinhoe, F.Z.S., 
referring to the article upon the Birds of China, published in the 
Society’s ‘ Proceedings,’ 1863, p. 259 :— 
“I may as well here make two required amendments to my “ Ca- 
talogue of the Birds of China,” published in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society’ for 1863. The first mistake was pointed out to 
* It was lately stated before the Society by Dr. Gray, that wild South-African 
Antelopes had no fat upon them. The man who skinned this animal obtained 
36 lbs. of fat from it; and probably, if the flesh had been boiled, nearly double 
the quantity might have been procured. 
t See P. Z. S. 1863, p. 233 et p. 518. 
