394 MR. P. L, SCLATER ON BIRDS [Nov. 5, 
2. A Prétre’s Amazon (Chrysotis pretrii), purchased July 23rd ; 
also new to the Collection. 
The registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie during the 
month of August were 117; of these 63 were acquired by presen- 
tation, 6 by purchase, 6 by birth, 1 by exchange, and 41 were 
received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 
same period by death and removals was 96. 
The registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie during the 
month of September were 84; of these 34 were acquired by presen- 
tation, 22 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 10 were bred in the Gardens, 
and 14 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 
during the same period by death and removals was 78. 
Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on two 
specimens of Virgularia mirabilis, dredged up by the Hon. A. E. 
Gathorne Hardy, M.P., in Loch Craigrush ; also two young living 
specimens of Palinurus vulgaris, received from Mr. Spencer of 
Guernsey, and a fresh specimen of Galathea strigosa, also received 
from Mr. Spencer. The mode of stridulating of the Palinurus was 
observable in the specimens. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a hybrid 
Wagtail, between Motacilla melanope and M. lugubris, one of three 
bred some years ago in Mr. T. J. Monk’s aviary at Lewes in Sussex 
(being the same as those mentioned in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1885, 
p- 24), and made some remarks on the probability of various 
Wagtails, closely allied, interbreeding in a wild state. 
Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on 
some specimens illustrative of variations in the plumage of the 
Common Partridge (Perdiz cinerea). 
A communication was read from the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing 
on Urothoé, a genus of Amphipodous Crustaceans, and on a new 
allied genus, proposed to be called Urothoides, of which Urothoé 
lachneessa, Stebbing, was the type. 
This Memoir will be printed in the Society’s ‘ Transactions.’ 
The following papers were read :— 
1. List of Birds collected by Mr. Ramage in St. Lucia, 
West Indies. By P. L. Scratzr, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 
Secretary to the Society. 
[Received July 25, 1889.] 
The series of birds collected in St. Lucia by Mr. George A. 
Ramage, the naturalist employed by the joint Committee of the 
Royal Society and the British Association for the investigation of 
