90 DR. O. FINSCH ON A NEW PARROT. [Jail. 20, 



this species had heen called Gapra picta, Erhardt*. But there seemed 

 to be little doubt, upon further examination, that the Wild Goat of 

 Crete and the Cyclades, known since the days of the Odyssey f, was 

 not really separable from Gapra cegagrus (Pallas) of Western Asia. 

 Mr. Busk had kindly examined the skull of the present specimen, 

 and quite agreed with this identification. Blasius('Saugeth. Europas,' 

 p. 483) had spoken of the Wild Goat of Crete and the Cyclades as 

 Gapra beden, but without giving any authority for this statement. 



Mr. Sandwith had furnished the following note on the occurrence 

 of Capra cegagrus in Crete : — 



" The Cretan Ibex is found on the slopes of Mount Ida and on 

 the White Mountains, both of which attain a height of 8000 feet. 



"Living amidst inaccessible rocks at an elevation of 4000 feet and 

 upwards, they are seldom molested, being only occasionally shot by 

 shepherds ; and the island being free from beasts of prey, man is the 

 only enemy they have to fear. The female sent to the Society's 

 Gardens was procured from the White Mountains when a few weeks 

 old ; the two males were from Mount Ida, also taken when quite 

 vonng. At first they were very wild, but soon grew tame, being fed 

 chiefly on mulberry-leaves, and afterwards on barley and oats. 



"Two of these animals have recently been sent to Berlin." 



Mr. Edwin Ward, F.Z.S., exhibited two double hind feet of a 

 Fallow Deer {Cervus dama), and read the following remarks :— 



"Amongst a herd of about 150 Fallow Deer belonging to Lady 

 Churchill, of Cornbury Park, Oxon, there has existed a doe pos- 

 sessing a malformation consisting of double hind feet. 



" This doe has for several successive years dropped a fawn with the 

 same malformation of double hind feet as her own. 



" The keepers state that the doe had been served by different bucks 

 each year. The hind feet of her progeny never differed, but always 

 partook of the shape of the mother's. 



" The division occurs in the upper part of the tarsus, which gra- 

 dually diverges into two separate tarsi and two separate feet." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On an apparently new Species of Parrot from Eastern 

 Peru. By Otto Finsch, Ph.D., C.M.Z.S., &c., Curator 

 to the Bremen Museum. 



[Eeceived November 29, 1873.] 



PsiTTACULA ANDICOLA, Sp. nOV. 



Diagn. Viridis unicolor, sabtus dilutior ; mento olivaceo-Jlavido ; 



rostro canescenti-corneo. 

 Description. — Upper parts beautiful dark grass-green, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts somewhat brighter ; the feathers on the occiput 

 * See Kev. Cat. Vert, p. 90. t See Odyssey, is. 118 and 154. 



