586 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CHAUNA CHAVARIA. [ Dec. 3, 
December 3, 1889. 
Prof. 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 November 1889 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of November was 83, of which 30 were by 
presentation, 3 by birth, 38 by purchase, 5 by exchange, and 7 were 
received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 
same period, by death and removals, was 86. 
The following extract was read from a letter received by the 
Secretary from the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk, C.M.Z.S., dated Cape 
Town, Sept. 24, 1889 :— 
«From time to time I have read with interest that which has 
appeared in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ concerning Bipalium 
kewense*. Last year I found about my place at Rondebosch 
several specimens apparently of this creature, some of which I 
gave to the Museum. This winter I have found other specimens, 
some of which were very fine ones. 1 placed ina glass jar some 
earth and living moss and added water. In this I have, during the 
last six months, kept my specimens of Bipalium. I have covered 
the top of the jar with fine wire gauze, and placed it on the floor 
in a dark corner of a room under the folds of a window curtain. 
Some of the large specimens of Bipalium have disappeared, but 
I find that there are in the jar several young ones in a healthy 
state, which glide over the sides of the jar, where I see them 
during the very early hours of the morning. Those which I 
placed in the jar have either bred or multiplied by division.” 
Mr. Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S., exhibited a small collection of 
Birds selected from a series obtained during the present year by 
Mr. Holst on the Bonin Islands. Amongst them were specimens of 
the following species :— 
Hapalopteron familiare. 
Fringilla kittlitzi, sp. nov. 
Cettia diphone. 
Hypsipetes squamiceps. 
Carpophaga versicolor. 
Gistrelata hypoleuca. 
Nycticorax crassirostris. 
Mr. Seebohm also exhibited a pair of Merula celenops from 
Fatsirio Island. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of the egg of the Crested 
Screamer (Chauna chavaria), from the collection of Mr. J. J. 
1 See P. Z. 8. 1886, p. 166; 1887, p. 548; 1889, p. 5. 
