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March 21, 1882. 

 Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D. F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1882: — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of February was 59, of which 22 were by 

 presentation, 26 by purchase, 3 by birth, 2 were received in exchange, 

 and 6 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 89. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of February 

 were as follows : — 



1. Four Warty-faced Honey-eaters {Xanthomyza phrygia), and 



2. Two Musk-Ducks {Bisiura lobata), purchased February 8th. 

 Both these Australian species are new to the Society's Collection ; 



and, so far as I know, examples of them have not been previously 

 brought alive to Europe. 



3. A young Tapir, born in the Gardens February 12th, and 

 thriving well, is the produce of our male Tnpirus roidini (received 

 May 25th, 1878) and the large female Tapirus americanus from 

 Paraguay, received January IGth, 1873. It is the first of the genus 

 bred in the Society's Gardens. 



4. A female INIule Deer (Cervus macrotis) from the Western 

 United States, presented by Dr. J. D. Caton, C.M.Z.S., and received 

 February 15th. ^ 



Thanks to Dr. Caton's kind exertions we have now a fine pair 

 (besides an odd male) of this beautiful Deer, and shall, I trust, 

 succeed in breeding them. The female just received is in excellent 

 health and very tame. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a mummified bird forwarded by Mr. 

 George Holland of Swansea, and received by him from an island 

 on the coast of Peru, whence it was brought home by the master of 

 the ship 'Nero.' It was evidently a young Ganuet, and most probably 

 referable to Sula fiber, a species common on the South-Pacific and 

 South-Atlantic coasts. 



The island in question appeared to be a great breeding-haunt of 

 sea-fowl ; and the deposit of guano there was very considerable. The 

 bird was found in a sitting posture completely buried in the guano 

 at a great depth. It had accordingly been so well preserved as to 

 be easily recognizable, although it must have been buried for some 

 considerable time. Three eggs exhibited, in much the same con- 

 dition, were obtained at the same time and place. One was probably 

 the egg of a Gull, the others those of a Tern. 



Mr. Sclater stated that in the course of some lectures lately given 

 at the Royal Institution on the geographical distribution of animals, 

 he had found it convenient to coin a term for the designation of a 



