PKOCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 16, 1883. 

 Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.K.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

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



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December were 55 in number. Of these 34 were acquired 

 by presentation, 12 by purchase, 2 were born in the Gardens, and 

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

 the same period, by death and removals, was 118. 



Mr. Dresser exhibited the specimen of a Bee-eater {Merops philip. 

 pinus) stated to have been obtained near the Snook, Seaton Carew, in 

 August 1862 (cf. Hancock, B. Northumb. cS:c. p. 28), and stated 

 that it was an old example, probably a male, in full plumage. Mr, 

 Dresser observed that it was rather singular that this remote sou- 

 thern and eastern species, which had never previously been recorded 

 from any part of Europe, should have been shot in Great Britain. 



The following papers were read : — 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1883, No. I. 



