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10 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removal, was 124. 

 The most noticeable of the additions were : — 



1. A Javan Fish-Owl {Ketupu javensis, Less.), purchased Sep- 

 tember 8th, being the first example of any species of this well-marked 

 genus of Owls obtained by the Society. 



2. A young specimen of the South-American Flamingo (Phoeni- 

 copterus iyni-palliatus), received September 19th by one of the Bra- 

 zilian Mail-steamers from Buenos Ayres, and believed to have been 

 forwarded to the Society by our energetic correspondent Mr. George 

 Wilks of Buenos Ayres. 



3. An Iguana, presented September 19th by Mr. J. B. Rowe. 

 Mr. Rowe obtained this animal from a seaman, who stated that he 

 had brought it from the Chincha Islands. But Dr. Giinther, who 

 has examined it, refers it to Metopoceros cornutus, Wagler, of St. 

 Domingo. 



4. A young Cassowary, obtained by exchange from the Zoological 

 Society of Amsterdam, September 20th. This bird, which is stated 

 to have been captured by a missionary resident at Munsinam, near 

 Havre Dorey, on the north-west extremity of the Bay of Geelvink, New 

 Guinea, in the summer of 180'J, appears to me to be identical with 

 the bird described by Rosenberg as Casuarius kaitpi (J. f. Orn. 180' 1 , 

 p. 44). Dr. Schlegel has referred this species to the young of C. 

 uviappendiculatus (see P. Z. S. 18GJi,_p. 168). But I can hardly 

 believe our bird to be the same as the latter species, there being no 

 traces at present of any throat-wattle at all, and the size being so 

 much smaller. Our bird seems to belong to a species closely allied 

 to C. bennetti, but quite distinct. 



5. A young female Ibex from the Island of Crete, presented to 

 the Society September 30th by T. B. Sandwith, Esq., H.B.M. 

 Consul for that island. Blasius refers the Cretan Ibex to Capra 

 beden, under which name I have provisionally entered our specimen 

 in the Register. It is, however, apparently quite different from the 

 female Ibex from Crete received in 1862, which reared a numerous 

 hybrid progeny in the Gardens ; and I am not yet certain as to its 

 correct specific name *. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of the Viscount Walden, President 

 of the Society, skins of both sexes of a new and most interesting 

 Falconine bird of the genus Polihierax, which had been recently 

 obtained in the vicinity of Tongoo, in Upper Burmah, and trans- 

 mitted to Lord Walden by Major Lloyd. 



In this species, which Lord Walden was intending to describe and 

 figure under the name Polihierax insignis, the whole of the back of 

 the head in the female sex, as well as the upper back, was of a deep 

 chestnut, being in the male grey striated with black. In both sexes 

 the white plumage below was marked on the neck and breast with 

 black shaft-stripes. The tail was black, broadly barred with white, 



* In 18G8 Mr. Blyth exhibited a head and horns of this Ibex at a Meeting o( 

 this Society, but did not give any name to the species (see P. Z. S. IStJS, p. 2t>2) 



