LIST OF CONTENTS. 

 PART I.— 1876. 



January 4, 1876, 



Pagr 

 The Secretary. Eeport on Uie additions to the Society's Menagerie in December 1870 .... 1 



Mr. G. Brown, C.M.Z.S. Letter from, on birds transmitted to tlie Society from Duke-of- 



York Island -J 



Mr. R. Trimen. Letter from, addressed to the Secretary, containing remarks on Canis 



chama, Smith l! 



Dr. Hector. Exhibition of and remarks on three feather mats, made by the Maoris of New 



Zealand "_' 



1. Description of the Skull of a Species of Xiphodon, Cuvier. By William Henrv Flowek, 



F.E.S., P.Z.S., F.G.S., &c. (Plate L) .■{ 



2. On a New Zipliioid Whale. By Julius von Haa.st, Ph.D., F.R.S., Director of the Can- 



terbury Museum, Ohristchu'rch, New Zealand. Communicated by Professor W. H. 

 Flower, F.R.S 7 



3. On some additional Species of Birds from St. Lucia, West Indies. By P. L. Sclatek, 



M.A., Ph.D., F.K.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate II.) i;j 



4. Note on the Spoonbill of the Argentine Republic. By W. H. Hudson, C.M.Z.S 15 



'). On Peruvian Birds collected by Mr. Whitely. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.. 



and OsBERT Salvin, M.A., F.R.S.— Part IX. (PL-ite III.) L") 



6. Notes on some Fijian Birds, including Description of a new Genus and Species. By 



Otto Finsch, Ph.D., C.M.Z.S., &c " 1<» 



7. On the Cacum Coli of the Capybara {Hydrochoenis capyhara). By A. H. Garbod, M.A., 



F.Z.S., Prosector to the Society :iO 



8. Contributions to Morphology. Iciithyoi-sida. — No. 1 . On Cerafodus fomteri, with Ob- 



servations on the Classification of Fishes. By Prof T. H. Huxley, Sec. B.S 24 



January 18, 1876. 



1. On a Peculiarity in the Carotid Arteries, and other Points in the Anatomy, of the Ground- 



Hornbill {Bucorvus abyssinicus). By A. H. Garrod, M.A., F.Z.S., Prosector to the 

 Society fiO 



2. On the Classification of the Order Glires. By Edward R. Alston, FG.S.,FZS 



(Plate IV.) CI 



3. On the Land-Shells of Taviuni, Fiji Islands, with Descriptions of New Species. By E. 



A. LiARDET. (Plate V.) <I9 



4. Notes on the Rails of the Argentine Republic. By W. H. Hudson, C.M.Z.S 102 



Contents continued on page 3 of wrapper. 



