2 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE GENUS SYNALLAXIS. [Jan. 6, 



2. A pair of the new Japanese Stork lately described by Mr. 

 Swinhoeinthe Society's 'Proceedings' as Cieonia boyciana*, brought 

 home by Mr. Swinhoe, and presented to the Society by Mr. R. H. 

 Boyce, Chief of H.M. Office of Works at Shanghai. 



Tbis fine new Stork is readily distinguishable from its two allies, 

 C. alba and C. maguari (with which it has been placed in company 

 at the Gardens) by its larger size, and the naked red line which runs 

 through the eye. The bill is black, as in C. maguari, the legs red. 



The sketch exhibited (Plate I.) from Mr. Keulemans's pencil will 

 give a good idea of this most interesting new bird. 



Dr. A. Leith Adams, F.Z.S., exhibited the horns, and made 

 remarks on the appearance and habits, of a breed of the Common 

 Goat which had returned to wildness on the cliffs of the Old Head 

 of Kinsale, Ireland. The points remarked on were : — (a) the striking 

 similitude of the horns to Capra eegagrus in comparison with tbe 

 usual twisted contour of domesticated varieties ; (6) the pronounced 

 similitude in habits to feral species ; (c) unusual length of the horn. 



Mr. A. H. Garrod, in drawing attention to the death on December 

 14th of the female Rhinoceros unicornis, which had lived in the 

 Society's Gardens for more than twenty-three years, remarked that 

 the only pathological sign detected was the enlargement of the 

 lymphatic glands at the base of the heart. Mr. Garrod's observa- 

 tions on tbe visceral anatomy of this Rhinoceros were quite confir- 

 matory of those of Professor Owen. In addition he mentioned that 

 there was a minute os cordis at the attached margin of one of the 

 aortic valves, and that in the Perissodactyla this bone is not always 

 absent, as by some supposed, he having found a large one in a 

 Sumatran Tapir. The remarkable difference between the arrange- 

 ment of the mucous membrane of the small intestine in the Indian 

 and Sumatran Rhinocerotes (that of the former being produced into 

 villi nearly an inch long through its whole length, whilst in the 

 latter these were represented by valvulse conniventes) was also illus- 

 trated from specimens in spirit. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Species of the Genus Synallaxis of the Family 

 Dendrocolaptida. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



[Eeceived January 6, 1874.] 



(Plates II., III., & IV.) 



Having some apparently new Synallaxes in my collection to describe, 

 I found it necessary to make a thorough re-examination of the nume- 

 rous species of this extensive genus, to which I had on several former 



* SeeP.Z.S. 1873, p. 513. 



