26 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Feb. 5, 
About the 21st of June 1888 she laid another egg in the same basket, 
and this was hatched on the 24th of July. The young bird was seen 
by our Secretary and our Superintendent, the latter of whom informs 
me that it had much the look of a newly-hatched Heron. Its eyes 
were open, and it was clothed with greyish-brown down. On the 
next day the keeper (Church) found it had disappeared, it having 
been doubtless eaten by one or other of its parents. 
Another egg laid by the same bird was hatched on the 7th of 
September 1888. Our Superintendent, to guard against a repetition 
of the former misfortune, abstained from any inspection of it, but 
unhappily to no effect, for on the following day this nestling also 
was found by the keeper (Samuel Bartlett) to have vanished, having 
doubtless gone the same way as its deceased brother or sister. 
February 5, 1889. 
Professor Flower, C.B., 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 January 1889 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of Jannary was 50. Of these 1 was by 
birth, 22 by presentation, 17 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 8 were 
received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 
period, by death and removals, was 116. 
The most noticeable additions during the month were :— 
1. A small collection of birds from Algeria obtained by purchase 
from a dealer at Oran on January 10th. Among these are specimens 
of Clot-Bey’s Lark (Aamphocorys clot-beyi), the Algerian Shore- 
Lark (Otocorys bilopha), and the Rosy Bullfinch (Zrythrospiza 
githaginea), all new to the Society’s collection. 
2. Two White Ibises, purchased January 18th, and differing from 
the White Ibises we have previously had in the Society’s collection 
in their larger size and bright red bills, as will be at once manifest 
on an examination of the specimens now in the Gardens. ‘They 
would appear to belong to the species (or subspecies) designated by 
Wagler (Isis, 1829, p. 760) Hudocimus longirostris. On the other 
hand, on referring to Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway’s ‘ Water Birds of 
North America’ (vol, i. p. 89), it will be seen that their Hudocimus 
albus is the larger red-billed bird. This subject therefore requires 
fresh investigation, and I commend it to the notice of American 
Ornithologists. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a living specimen of the Thick-billed Lark 
(Rhamphocorys clot-beyi) out of a flock of five which the Society had 
lately received from Algeria, and called attention to its peculiarities. 
