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to the coast at Musserra (in about 7° S. lat.), and on one of which 

 stands, as a prominent landmark, the ' remarkable granite pillar ' of 

 the charts of that coast. I only know this Tortoise elsewhere in 

 the Benguella country, in 13° S. lat., in gneiss, and on a similar 

 barren, very rocky ground. It only makes its appearance in the 

 hot or rainy season, from October to May, and is said by the natives 

 to hide deep in the ground during the cool season, or rest of the 

 year." 



12. A young Lemur, born in the Society's gardens on the 7th of 

 May. Its mother was one of the so-called Black-fronted Lemurs 

 {Lemur nigrifrons, Geoffr.) ; and its male parent must have been 

 one of our Red-cheeked Lemurs {Lemur collaris, Geoffr.), as there 

 are no other male Lemurs in the same compartment of the Monkey- 

 house. Moreover, as already stated in my notes on this subject 

 (an tea, p. '231), the parents were evidently paired together. The 

 little animal (which died the same day, and the skin of which I now 

 exhibit) is certainly most like the female parent, though a male, 

 and does not, so far, tend materially to confirm my theory of these 

 two supposed different species being really opposite sexes of Lemur 

 mangos, although I have no doubt that this is correct. 



13. A young male of the peculiar Bovine type of the island of 

 Celebes, the Anoa {Anoa depressicornis), obtained by purchase of 

 the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam on the 10th of May, and 

 being the first specimen of this animal exhibited in the Society's 

 collection. 



14. A young Eagle from the port of Fow-Chow in China, pur- 

 chased May 11. This bird is in the striated plumage represented 

 in Gray's ' Indian Zoology,' ii. pi. 28, which has been usually attri- 

 buted to A. imperialis, but which Mr. Howard Saunders, in his re- 

 cent remarks on this subject (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 38), believed to be 

 the young of some allied species. In order to assist in the solution 

 of this vexed problem, I have had a sketch made of our bird in its 

 present plumage. This I now exhibit. We shall see what the bird 

 turns into when it becomes adult. 



15. A selection from a second collection of animals brought from 

 Santiago, Chili, by Mr.Weisshaupt, under the same arrangements as 

 those mentioned in the case of the similar collection received in July 

 last year*. The selection consisted of the following animals, ac- 

 quired at a total cost of £136 : — 



1 Long-haired Armadillo, Dasypus vellerosus, from Mendoza. 



4 Buenos-Ayres Cow-birds, Molothrus bonariensis, from Men- 

 doza. 



2 Chopi Starlings, Aphobus chopi, from Chili. 



2 Long-winged Milvagos, Milvago megalopterus, from Chili. 

 2 Chilian Swans, Cygnus coscoroba, from Chili. 

 2 Andean Geese, Bernicla melanoptera, from Chili. 

 2 Dominican Gulls, Larus dominicanus, from Chili. 



5 Rufescent Teguexins, Terns rufeseens, sp. nov., from Mendoza. 

 Of these the Dasypus vellerosus, Bernicla melanoptera, Milvago 



* See P. Z. S. 1870, p. 664. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1871, No. XXXV. 



