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mouth. In. the Tapir this muscle, although shorter, is more like the 
corresponding muscle of the Rhinoceros; it has the same origin 
from the bone and is inserted near to the corner of the month. 
The Mawillo-nasal seems to be, if anything, rather less developed 
in the Rhinoceros than in the Horse; it is not indicated in Murie’s 
figure of the Tapir. 
The Levator labii superioris aleque nasi is composed of two por- 
tions, which are decidedly more distinct from each other than in 
the Horse ; the lowermost portion of this muscle, which is attached 
to the lower jaw, corresponds to the muscular slip regarded by 
Chauveau as homologous with the risorius. 
The remaining muscles of the head as shown in fig. 10 call for no 
special comment. 
3. On the Breeding of the Seriema (Cariama cristata). 
By Atrrep Newron, V.-P. 
[Received January 15, 1889.] 
(Plate I.) 
It may perhaps be remembered that as nearly as possible eight 
years ago our Foreign Member, Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 
entrusted to my care for exhibition to this Society a specimen of the 
egg of Cariama cristata which had been laid in the Jardin des 
Plantes, and that I then expressed (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 2) the hope 
that our own Gardens would, sooner or later, produce a similar 
example. That hope has been more than fulfilled, and our Secretary, 
in placing in my hands the eggs now betore you (Plate I.), has 
requested me to make a few observations upon them. 
These eggs were laid by a bird presented to the Society on the 
12th of August 1884 by Captain Jones, which had paired with a 
male bought by the Society on the 23rd of August 1882. Both are 
still living in our Gardens. The eggs were laid about the 15th of 
May 1887 in arude nest built in a basket placed on one of the 
perches of a compartment in the Eastern Aviary, at the height of 
about a dozen feet from the ground. I understand that the mother 
sat upon them, but that they were found to be broken, and were 
then removed. . 
So far as my memory serves me, these eges present exactly the 
same characters as that which was laid in the Jardin des Plantes, and 
which was exhibited by me on the occasion just mentioned. They 
also resemble in the same way that figured by Thienemann (Fort- 
pflanz. der gesammt. Végel, tab. Ixxii. fig. 14) to which I then 
referred ; but Mr. Keulemans’s drawings (Plate I.) are sufficiently 
exact to make further description unnecessary. 
In May 1888 this same hen Oariama cristata laid two eggs, but 
both were destroyed, as is believed, by the parents. 
