75-1 MR. H. SAUNDERS ON STERNA ALEUTICA. [NoV. 20, 



ceux du Caprimulgus europcBus ; mais ils sont beaucoup plus petits, 

 a maculature composee generalement de taches petites et nombreuses, 

 parmi lesquelles il y a souvent des stries. Les taches pales sont en 

 general beaucoup plus nombreuses que celles de la gamme super- 

 ficielle. Dimensions: 26, 19-2; 26-2, 20 2; 26-2, 19-5; 27*2,20; 

 28-2, 20-3; 28-2, 19-5 millim. 



CoLUMBULA CRUZiANA (Knip ct Prev.). 



Les oeufs d'une poute presentent les dimensions suivantes : 23, 17 ; 

 23, 18-8 millim. 



November 20, 1877. 

 Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of October 1877. 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of Oc'.ober was 93, of which 37 were by 

 presentation, 29 by purchase, 1 by exchange, 9 by birth, and 17 

 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 127. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of October were 

 as follows : — 



1. A Layard's Flying Squirrel {Sciuropterus layardi^), presented 

 by Sir Charles Peter Layard, October 8th. This is the first example 

 of this elegant little Ceylonese animal that has reached our col- 

 lection. 



2. A pair of East-African Buffalos (Bubalus cBquinoctialis), pur- 

 chased 27th October. 



This is the animal lately described in our ' Proceedings ' by Sir 

 Victor Brooke (P. Z. S. 1875, p. 457), from a specimen living in the 

 Zoological Gardens at Berhn, and there first well distinguished by 

 him from the allied South-African species {Bubalus coffer), of which 

 we have likewise living examples. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a skin of the rare Aleutian 

 Tern (Sterna aleuticd), from Alaska, and made some remarks on its 

 intermediate position between the true Terns (Sterna) and the 

 Sooty Terns (Onr/choprion). 



The following papers were read : — 



' Sciuropferus layardi, KeJaart, ' Prodromus Fawnss Zeylanicse,' p. 66 ; 

 Tennent's Oeylor, vol. i. p. 148. 



