262 DR. W. BAIRD ON A NEW SCLEROSTOMA. [May 14, 



the allied P. rueppelli (Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 131), occurred in 

 Zambesia. 



8. A "White-billed Parrot (Tanygnathus albirostris, Wallace, 

 P. Z. S. 1862, p. 336) from Celebes. 



9. A male Lyre-bird {Menura superba) deposited April 21st, 

 making up a pair of this extraordinary bird now living in the 

 Society's Gardens. 



10. A specimen of the rare Hapale argentata (Linn.)*, pur- 

 chased of a Liverpool dealer, and stated to have been received from 

 the Amazons. 



In his Catalogue of the Primates of the Paris Museum (p. 60) 

 M. Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire had treated this species as an albino 

 variety of Hapale melanura. This appeared to be quite erroneous, 

 as would be evident from the inspection of the living animal. More- 

 over the habitats of the two species were quite different, Hapale 

 melanura being from Bolivia, and H. argentata from the Lower 

 Amazons, whence it was originally brought by La Condamine. 



From Mr. Bates's ' Naturalist on the Amazons ' it appeared that 

 the exact habitat of this species was the lower part of the Tocantins 

 river in the vicinity of Cametaf . Mr. Bates had stated that it is 

 one of the rarest of the American Monkeys, and that he did not 

 succeed in obtaining specimens of it. 



Mr. E. Blyth exhibited a skin and the head and horns of a Wild 

 Goat obtained in Crete by Lieut. -Col. Drummond-Hay, which he 

 considered was referable to the Capra aegagrns of Pallas. Mr. Blyth 

 added some remarks on the Mouflons {Ovis) of the islands of 

 Sardinia, Corsica, and Cyprus. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Description of a new Species of Sclerostoma from the 

 Stomach of the African Elephant [Loxodonta africcma) . 

 By W. Baied, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 



In the ' Proceedings ' of this Society for 1859, I described a species 

 of Sclerostoma from the large intestines of a young Indian Elephant 

 which had recently died in London, after having been only a 

 short time in England ; this species I named, from a general resem- 

 blance to the form of a Sipunculus, Sclerostoma sipunculiforme. 

 Recently there died in London a young female African Elephant, 

 Loxodonta africana ; in the stomach of this animal Dr. Murie, 

 who dissected it, found a number of specimens of another species 

 of Sclerostoma, which he has kindly deposited in the British 

 Museum. 



* Le Mico, Buff. Hist. Nat. xv. p. 124, t. xviii. Shaia argentata, Linn. 

 Mantiss. t. ii. p. 521 : Gin. 8. N. i. j). 41 ; Schreber, Saugeth. i. p. 13; Wagner, 

 Saugeth. v. p. 245. Mlco acriceiis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 257. Pi. XXIV. 



+ L. r. vol. i. p. 162. 



