218 MR. d'albertis on birds from new guinea. [Mar. 4, 



Fig. 42. Columhclla {Atilia) nivcomar- 

 ginata, p. 208. 



43. {Zafra) suhvifrca, p. 209. 



44-446. {Atni/cla) i'ari««s, p.210. 



45, 45a. Nassa (Zeuxis) siquijorensis, 

 p. 210. 



46. (Hima) acutidcndata, 



p. 212. 



47. ( ) Mcola, p. 212. 



48. CoralUophilajeffrci/i-ii, p. 21.3. 



Fig. 49. Mitra {Costellaria) fusco- 

 apicata, p. 214. 



— ( ) collinsoni, p. 215. 



— ( ) gotocnsis, p. 215. 



— (Pusia) amwla, p. 215. 

 ( ) incr7nis, p. 216. 



50. 



51. 



52. 



53, 53«. 



54. CanceUaria japonica, p. 216. 



55. Oliva ( Olivella sprefa). p. 216. 



56. AncUlaria inornata, p. 217. 



March 4, 18/9. 

 Prof. W. PI. Flower, F.R.S., President, in tlie Cliair. 



The Secretary made the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during February 1879 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of February was 47, of which 3 were by 

 birth, 20 by presentation, 18 by purchase, 4 were received in ex- 

 change, and 2 on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 83. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A Purple-crested Touracou (Cori/thaix jjorp/njreolopka), pre- 

 sented by the Rev. J. A. Gould, F.Z.S., February 4. 



On his return from Natal Mr. Gould was kind enough to bring 

 us the first example of this beautiful Touracou which has been re- 

 ceived alive by the Society. The bird was obtained from a person 

 on board the Zanzibar mail-steamer, and is doubtless from Mozam- 

 bique, or from some part of the East-African coast. 



2. A very beautiful Iguanoid Lizard (kindly determined by 

 Dr. Giinther as Crotophytus xoislezeni, Baird and Girard) from New 

 Mexico, presented by Lieut. -Col. Ralph Vivian, F.Z.S., on the 18th 

 February, which has unfortunately died since its receipt by the Society. 



Mr. Sclater laid before the Meeting examples of two rare Fruit- 

 Pigeous {Caifophaga van-wicJd, Cassin, and C. rhodinolcema , Scl.), 

 and pointed out, in reference to some recent remarks by Dr. Finsch 

 on these birds {antea, p. 13), that though nearly allied, they were 

 by no means conspecitic, C rhodinolcema being altogether smaller 

 in size, and having a dark-green back. 



]Mr. Sclater had no doubt that the bird obtained by Mr. Hiibner 

 in the Duke-of-York group would turn out to be C. vanwycki, not 

 C. rliodinolmma. 



Mr. L. M. D'Albertis, C.M.Z.S., exhibited some new and rare 

 birds from his recent expedition up the Fly River, New Guinea, 

 amongst which were a series of Paradise-birds, apparently inter- 

 mediate between Paradisea apoda and P. raggiana, and examples of 

 Cyclop&ittacus cervicalis, Megacrex inepta, Cinclosoma ajax, and 

 other little-known species. 



