546 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [June 20, 



megalopterus, and Teius rufescens (described by Dr. Giinther, supra, 

 p. 541) are species new to the Society's collection. 



The Armadillo is of special interest as confirming a species esta- 

 blished by Dr. Gray in this Society's 'Proceedings' for 1865*, upon 

 a single specimen obtained by Mr. Bridges in " Bolivia." I have 

 examined the typical example in the British Museum, and have no 

 doubt of our specimen being identical with it, though in our rather 

 larger individual the hairs are still longer. It is possible the locality 

 ("Bolivia") assigned to Mr. Bridges's specimen may be correct ; but 

 I am somewhat inclined to doubt it. In a collection of birdskins 

 made by Mr. Weisshaupt in the district of Mendoza, and between 

 San Juan and San Luis, in the Argentine Republic, during tbe same 

 expedition as that in which he obtained Dasypus vellerosus and the 

 other animals, I have recognized several well-marked species, such 

 as Drymornis bridgesi (Eyton), which are also commonly attributed 

 to "Bolivia," but which were in all probability obtained by Mr. 

 Bridges during his travels in the vicinity of Mendoza. 



16. A Tamandua Ant-eater {Tamandua tetradactyla, Linn.) 

 from the vicinity of Santa Marta, purchased May 29. The clever 

 drawing of Mr. Keuleman's, which I exhibit (Plate XLIII.), will 

 serve to give an idea of the external form of this animal, which has 

 never been previously received alive by the Society, though we have 

 at present two fine examples of Myrmecophaga gigantea living in the 

 Menagerie, and have twice received living specimens of Cycloturus 

 didactyhtsf. Our Tamandua measures as follows : — Long. corp. 20, 

 caudse 20, tota 40 poll. Angl. 



17. Two examples of the peculiar Short-winged Rail of Lord 

 Howe's Island, which I have lately described in this Society's 

 'Proceedings' an Ocydromus sylvestris (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 472, 

 pi. xxxv.). For our specimens of this singular bird, as for so many 

 rarities previously received, we have to thank our excellent friend 

 and correspondent Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney, N.S.W., 

 and the authorities of the Botanic Gardens of that city. 



Prof. Newton exhibited a series of eggs collected by the German 

 North-Pole Expedition, and transmitted to him by Dr. Finsch. The 

 most interesting among them were presumed to belong to Calidris 

 arenaria, partly from the fact that no other species was observed 

 by the Expedition to which they could possibly be assigned, and 

 partly from the fact that all of them agree in every essential cha- 

 racter, and some of them precisely, with an authenticated specimeu 

 of the egg of this bird exhibited by Prof. Newton in January last, 

 and figured in the Society's 'Proceedings' (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 56, 

 pi. iv. fig. 2). This he then believed to be the first genuine egg 



* See P. Z. S. 1865, p. 376, pi. xviii. 



t One of these Ant-eaters was "received on approval" from Mr. Colston, 

 Sept, 16, 1854, the second "presented" by E. li. Webb, Esq., Sept, 5, 1858. 

 The generie name is usually written Cyelothurus. Supposing (lie derivation of 

 i( to be KVJcXuiros rotundatus, I prefer to write it Oycloturus, 



