1870.] PROF. NEWTON ON THE DODO. 333 



The present example has a deep-red face, but quite uniform non- 

 annellated hairs. The annellatious, Dr. Anderson tells me, only 

 appear in the adult animal. 



2. Two Caracaras (Poli/borns) in a very remarkable plumage, 

 purchased of a dealer in Liverpool March 2nd, and stated to have 

 been received from " Patagonia." Their general form and size is 

 exactly that of Polyborus tharus ; and I am of opinion, on the 

 whole, that they are merely young individuals of that species in an 

 abnormal phase of plumage ; though it is right to say that other 

 naturalists who have seen them are inclined to believe that they 

 belong to a distinct species. 



Mr. Smit's drawing (Plate XXV.) gives a correct figure of these 

 curious birds. The plumage is of a nearly uniform milky white, 

 with yellowish shaft-stripes on the back and breast ; the naked cere 

 is flesh-coloured, the bill greenish yellow ; the feet are nearly white ; 

 but the iris is dark brown. It will be observed that the tail is im- 

 perfect. 



3. A lead-coloured Falcon (Hypotriorchis concolor), presented 

 March 3rd by Mr. A. F. Allman, having been captured on board a 

 vessel on its passage down the Mozambique Channel. This is an 

 immature bird, nearly in the plumage figured by Schlegel and 

 Pollen (Urn. Madagasc. pi. xii.), and is the first example we have 

 received of this scarce species. 



4. Three Sirens (Siren lacertiaa, Linn.), from South Carolina, 

 presented by Mr. G. E. Maingault, Curator of the Museum of 

 Natural History, Charleston, March 29th. Mr. Maingault has on 

 a previous occasion transmitted to us an example of this rare and 

 singular Batrachian ; but these are the first that have reached us 

 alive. 



5. A South-American Flamingo {Phoenicopterus ignipalliatus), 

 from the Upper Amazon, acquired by purchase March 29th. The 

 individual assigned to this species in 1871 (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 627), 

 which was quite young when received, and is now adult, is certainlv 

 not of this species, but either a small individual of P. antiquorum or 

 one of the so-called P. minor; so that the present example is the 

 first of the present species we have received. The bird is very 

 remarkable for its party-coloured legs, the greater part of the toes 

 and tibio-tarsal joint being of a bright scarlet. 



Professor Newton, V.P., exhibited a small volume, belonging to 

 the Rev. Richard Hooper, of Upton Rectory, near Didcot, and 

 remarked : — 



" This little book has been kindly lent to me by its owner, who 

 has before interested himself in enquiries after the Dodo (Didus 

 ineptus)*. It is obviously the same work as that described by 

 Broderip in our 'Transactions' (iv. p. 183), but an entirely different 

 and, so far as I can learn, a hitherto unknown edition of it. 

 Broderip's copy was published, he says, at Amsterdam, by Abraham 

 Wolfgangh, in 16G2. Mr. Hooper's is without date, and was published 

 at the same place by ' Abraham en Jan de Wees, Boek-verkoopers, 

 * Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) iii. p, 259. 



