356 PROF. F. J. BELL ON AN IMMATURE ECHINOID. [May 4, 



pial that has been brought alive to Europe. Many attempts have 

 been made by the friends and correspondents of the Society in 

 AustraUa to induce specimens of this animal to live in captivity ; but 

 all have hitherto failed. The present example, which was purchased 

 of a dealer in London, was brought home fed upon dried leaves of 

 EucalyjHvs, and had been several weeks in this country before it 

 was acquired by the Society. 



I also take this opportunity of calling attention to the fine Toucan, 

 brought from the State of Tolima, U. S. of Colombia, and presented 

 to the Society by Mr. L. Merino on the 26th of August 1826, and 

 still living in the Pariot-house. This Toucan was correctly entered 

 in the list of additions in 1876 (P. Z. S. 18/6, p. 834) as Ram- 

 phastos ambigiivs, but in the last edition of the List of Animals 

 (1879, p. 258) was unfortunately referred to R. tocard, a closely 

 allied but perfectly distinct species. 



7/. amhiguus is readily recognizable, as will be seen by the 

 coloured drawing of the head which I now exhibit, by the black 

 colour of the lower and of the base of the upper mandible, where 

 in R. tocard there is a large reddish blotch. This is well shown 

 in Mr. Gould's plates (Ramph. ed. 2, pis. iv. & v.) ; but the naked 

 space round the eye in R. ambiguus, which is there coloured blue, 

 should be of a pale yellowish green. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of the Ibis (Geronficus comatus) 

 obtained at Biledjik on the Euphrates by Mr. Danford in February 

 1879 (as mentioned by him in a recent number of 'The Ibis,' 18S0, 

 p. 88, and there referred to Geronticus calvus) — and made some 

 remarks on its previously known distribution, which ajipeared to 

 extend from Tangier on the west (Favier in Irby's ' Birds of Gib- 

 raltar,' p. 192) to Gomfuda upon the Arabian shore of the Red Sea 

 (Hempr. & Ehr., in Riippell's Syst. Ueb. p. 119). It was singular 

 that the bird had not been hitherto obtained in Eastern Palestine, 

 which it would apparently pass through on its northern migration. 



Dr. Giinther informed the rneeting that he had received another 

 communication from the Rev. G. Gordon with respect to the occur- 

 rence of Ilolacanthus tricolor ' in the Western Isles. His corre- 

 spondent had m.ade further personal inquiries at Lossiemouth, from 

 which it appeared that the specimen was brought from Stornoway to 

 Lossiemouth, that it had been carried to "Stornoway by the master 

 of a small ship that had come from Glasgow, and that the fish had not 

 been caught at Stornoway by a herring-net or otherwise." Under 

 these circumstances it could not be held that this specimen had been 

 caneht on the British shores. 



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Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell exhibited an immature specimen of an 

 Echincid belonging to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 

 arid made the following remarks : — 



The specimen which I have now the honour of exhibiting to the 

 ' P. Z. S. 1880, p. 23. 



