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rowed at intervals all round the garden-walls ; but this wa3 evidently 

 only to try and escape, as she never made a hole large enough to 

 give cover. The day she had the young one she came out during 

 the day ; but not being quite up to grubbing for insects, she went 

 into the stable and remained among the horses grubbing in the 

 dung. After the birth she tried to entice the young Pangolin 

 to suck (apparently), sitting up like a dog when begging, and coiling 

 up the moment she got it in her lap. I could not, however, detect 

 whether she managed to suckle it ; indeed I was quite ignorant of 

 the habits of the animal in its natural state. The first day the 

 young one had soft scales ; but they hardened the second day, and 

 it died the same night. The mother wandered about for two days 

 afterwards, then came into the house and died." 



Mr. Sclater stated that he had, in company with the Superinten- 

 dent, examined the living examples of Ciconia maguari now in the 

 Society's Gardens, and could confirm what Mr. Ridgway had so 

 clearly described (Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. vol. iv. p. 250) as to extra- 

 ordinary mimicry of the true rectrices by the elongated upper 

 tail-coverts. The same was also the case with Ciconia episeopus, of 

 which there were also living examples in the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. Ridgway's generic term Euxenura, however, based on this 

 peculiar structure, had, it appeared, been anticipated by Dr. Cabanis, 

 who, in 1850, had proposed the name Dissoura 1 for this form of 

 Stork ; so that the two species should stand for the future as Dissura 

 maguari (Gm.) and D. episeopus (Bodd.). 



On behalf of Dr. Elliott Coues, C.M.Z.S., two specimens of 

 Synaptomys ceoperi, Bd., were exhibited by Mr. Edward R. Alston. 

 This species, Mr. Alston observed, was the type of Synaptomys, pro- 

 posed in 1857 by Prof. Baird as a subgenus of My odes' 1 , and accorded 

 full generic rank by Dr. Coues in 1874 3 . The present specimens were, 

 as far as was known, the first typical specimens sent to Europe. 

 When Mr. Alston wrote his paper "On the Classification of the Order 

 Glires" 4 he was only acquainted with Dr. Coues's preliminary remarks, 

 and hesitated at accepting the full generic value of this form ; he was 

 therefore now desirous of expressing his full recognition of its rank. 

 Synaptomys was particularly interesting as presenting a connecting 

 link between the Lemmings and Field-Voles, combining the general 

 cranial and dental characters of Myodes with the external pecu- 

 liarities of Arvicola, but differing from both in its grooved upper 

 incisors. Its range was much less boreal than that of the Lemmings, 

 extending as far south as Kansas. The specimens exhibited were 

 destined for the British and Berlin Museums. 



1 Cf. Reichenow, J. f. Om. 1877, p. 168. The name is written Dissoura ; but 

 Dissura is more simple and more correct. 



2 Mamm. N. Amer. pp. xliv, 558. 



3 P. Ac. Philad. 1874, p. 192. Cf. Mon. N. Am. Rodent, p. 223. 



4 P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 61-98. F 



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