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black, or nearly so, and naked ; the down-feathers grew slowly ; and 

 the tail-feathers, which are white in the adult birds, are black in the 

 young; one, and still continue so. This led to the young bird being 

 described a few years ago as a second species*. 



Guira Cuckoo {Guira piririgua) . 



One of these birds during the early part of the summer dropped 

 or laid an egg on the ground in the aviary ; but unfortunately the 

 specimen was broken by the fall, or by the birds themselves or their 

 companions. Sufficient pieces, however, were saved to enable a good 

 drawing to be made ; and it is interesting to find this bird lays an 

 egg that agrees completely with the egg of the Anis {Crotophaga), 

 to which it is doubtless closely allied. 



Scarlet Ibis {Ibis rubra). 



A female of this bird has been in the aviary with other birds since 

 March 1864 ; and, notwithstanding that there were three of her own 

 species in the same aviary, she paired with a white Ibis in June last. 

 These two birds built a nest upon the ground, composed princi- 

 pally of twigs, pieces of birch-broom, sticks, &c, upon which was 

 laid an egg of a pale green, thickly spotted and blotched with a 

 dirty-brown colour. The egg was constantly attended by both birds, 

 and the nest was raised considerably under the egg by the constant 

 addition of materials, the egg being rolled from side to side as the 

 sticks, &c, were placed under it. This raising the nest continued 

 for about ten days, after which time the birds began to incubate, 

 taking turns on the egg. After sitting four weeks, the egg was found 

 to be addled, and was removed in order to save the specimen, which 

 is now on the table. 



February 13, 186C. 

 John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to three Monkeys 

 recently received from the Island of St. Kitts, West Indies. Mr. 

 Edward Greey, Fellow of the Society, having reported the existence 

 of Monkeys in a wild state in considerable numbers upon this island, 

 had been urged by Mr. Sclater to attempt to obtain some specimens, 

 in order that it might be ascertained to what species they were re- 

 ferable, as it had been always believed that there were no native 

 Quadrumana in the Lesser Antilles. Through the assistance of Mr. 

 John Garden, of St. Kitts, Mr. Greey had succeeded in obtaining a 

 specimen of this Monkev ; and two others from the same island had 

 * Columba gouldia, Gray, Ind. Zool. pi. 37 ; Caloenas gouldice, auct. 



