1878.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 631 



The lower end of the trachea is represented in the accompanying 

 figures (p. 630), from the front and from behind. It differs in arrange- 

 ment from all other of the Gallinse with which I am acquainted. 

 To the terminal tracheal three-way ring is fused the first bronchial 

 semiring by its extremities, its bowed free portion being upturned 

 with its limbs almost perpendicular. In the middle line posteriorly 

 the penultimate tracheal ring fuses with the what may be compound 

 three-way piece, in the posterior aspect of which a small upward- 

 directed tongue of cartilage develops from its upper border. The 

 sterno-tracheal muscles are minute and the intrinsic tracheal muscles 

 form thin broad sheets which almost cover the tube and end on the 

 outer surface of the first bronchial semiring and in the semicartila- 

 ginous large membrane between it and the unmodified following 

 semiring. 



June 4, 1878. 

 Prof. 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 May 1878 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of May 1878 was 104, of which 43 were by 

 birth, 39 by presentation, 8 by purchase, 7 by exchange, and 7 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period by death and removals was 120. 



, The most noticeable additions during the month of May were as 

 follows : — 



1. Two male Lesser Birds of Paradise (Paradisea minor), pur- 

 chased of Mr. Leon Laglaize, May 2. On his return from the 

 Eastern Archipelago in October last, Mr. Laglaize brought with 

 him four living specimens of this Paradise-bird. All of these passed 

 the winter safely in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris ; and two of them 

 in full plumage have now been acquired by the Society. 



The only other examples of Paradise-bird previously living in the 

 Society's Gardens were the two individuals of the same species 

 brought by Mr. Wallace from Singapore in April 1862'. One of 

 these lived until 25th December, 1863, the other until the 28th 

 March, 1864, in the Society's Gardens. 



2. A Copper-head Snake (Cenchris contortrix) presented by Dr. 

 Frederick Painter, F.Z.S., of South Pittsburg, Tennessee, U.S.A. 

 This is a well-known venomous snake in the United States ; but we 

 have not previously received living examples of it. 



3. A Hairy or Andean Tapir (Tapirus roulini~), obtained in ex- 

 change from Mr. C. Rice, May 25. 



Although we have had in our Gardens examples of all the other 

 three known species of Tapirs, this is, I believe, the first example 



i See P. Z. S. 1862, p. 123. 



3 See, for the reasons for adopting this name, footnote, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 51. 



