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Dr. Giinther exhibited and made remarks on a hybrid Pheasant, between 

 a male Golden Pheasant, Thmimalea jncta, and a female Reeve's Pheasant, 

 Pliasanius reeved. Dr. Giinther also exhibited a living hybrid Pigeon, 

 produced by a male white Fantail Pigeon and a female Collared Dove, 

 Turtur risorius. 



Dr. Giinther read a report on the zoological collections made by Gapt. 

 Maclear and the other officers of H.M.S. ' Flying Fish,' during a short 

 voyage to Christmas Island. This island is situated in the middle of 

 the Indian Ocean, south of Java, and had never been before visited by 

 naturalists. The collection, which had been worked out by the staff of the 

 British Museum, consisted of ninety-five specimens, amongst which were 

 examples of two Mammals, two Birds, two Reptiles, two Mollusks, two 

 Coleoptera, two Lepidoptera, and a Sponge new to Science. 



Mr. F. Beddard read a paper on Mynnecohius fasciatus, in which he 

 described a remarkable glandular structure stretched across the anterior 

 region of the thorax of this Marsupial. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read the sixth of a series of studies on the 

 Holothuridea. The present paper contained descriptions of several new 

 species belonging to the genera Cucumaria, BohadscJua, and Holothuria. 



Mr. A. Smith-Woodward read a report on the fossil teleostean genus 

 Rhacolepis. The author gave a detailed description of this Brazilian fossil- 

 fish, which had been named and briefly noticed by Agassiz. Three species 

 were defined, and the author showed that the genus had hitherto been 

 erroneously associated with the Percoids and Berycoids. He considered it 

 an Elopine Clupeoid. 



A communication was read from Mr. James W. Davis, containing a 

 note on a fossil species of Chlamydoselachns. The author pointed out that 

 some teeth from the Pliocene of Orciano, Tuscany, figured and described 

 by R. Lawley in 1876, were referable to this newly-discovered genus of 

 Sharks. He named the fossil species C. lawleyi. 



Mr. Frank E. Beddard read the fourth of a series of notes on the 

 anatomy of Earthworms. The present communication treated of the 

 structure of Cryptodrilus fletcheri, a new species from Queensland. 



A communication was read by Mr. Roland Trimen, containing observa- 

 tions on Bipalium kewense, of which worm he had obtained many specimens 

 from gardens at the Cape. 



Dr. Giinther gave the description of two new species of fishes from the 

 Mauritius, proposed to be named Platycephalus subfasciatas and Latilus 

 fronticinctus. 



Mr. Sclater read a note on the Wild Goats of the Caucasus, in which he 

 pointed out the distinctions between Capra caucasica and C. pallasi, which 

 had been until recently confounded together. 



Mr. G. Boulenger made remarks on the skull and cervical vertebrae 



