PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
January 14, 1869. 
George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of a Spizaétus, which had been for- 
warded to him by Mr. Charles Rivington of Hong Kong, and which 
Mr. Rivington had had two years in captivity. The specimen ap- 
peared to be identical with that figured in Temminck and Schlegel’s 
‘Fauna Japonica’ as Spizaétus orientalis, but was considered by 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, to whom Mr. Sclater had shown it, to be merely 
one of the numerous stages of plumage of Spizaétus nipalensis. 
An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by 
M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, C.M.Z.S., relating to some interesting 
discoveries made by M. Grandidier, C.M.Z.S., in Madagascar :— 
“In digging in a little marsh in Amboulitsate (Ranou-bé) M. 
Grandidier had found a great number of bones belonging to a species 
of Hippopotamus much smaller than H. amphibius, He had found 
also bones of AZpyornis and of new species of Crocodiles and Tor- 
toises.”” 
Mr. Sclater exhibited specimens in spirits of a female and young 
Potto (Perodicticus potto), which Mr, Frederick M, Skues had ob- 
tained living on the west coast of Africa, and had endeavoured to 
bring home for the Society’s Menagerie. Mr. Sclater read the fol- 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1869, No. I. 
