890 MH. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [NoV. 28, 



6. Trochomorpha partunda. (PI. XLITI. figs. 13, 14, 15.) 



Shell widely and deeply umbilicated, somewhat conically lenticular, 

 rather solid, obliquely striated, pale horn-colour, broadly banded with 

 dark chestnut ; spire convexly depressly conical, apex obtuse, suture 

 narrowly margined ; whorls five, rather convex, the last a little de- 

 scending, acutely keeled, slightly convex at the base, which is some- 

 times brown, the colour extending to within a short distance of the 

 keel, at other times broadly spirally banded with brown ; umbilicus 

 conical, nearly one-fifth the diameter of the shell ; aperture diagonal, 

 truncately oval ; peristome nearly straight, the margins converging, 

 the right slightly flexuous, the basal a little thickened. 



Diam. maj. 6|, min, 6, alt. 4 lin. 



llab. Galera, or Russell Island, Solomon group. 



DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XLIII. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3. Geotrochus gamelia, p. 888. 



4, 5, 6. eros, p. 888. 



7, 8. coxiamis, p. 889. 



9, 10. ambrosia, p. 889. 



11, 12. mendana, p. 889. 



13, 14, 15. Trochomorpha partunda, p. 890. 

 16, 17. Cceliaxis exigua, p. 907. 



November 28, 1867- 



John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater read notes upon some recent remarkable addi- 

 tions to the Society's Menagerie, namely : — 



(1) A specimen of the Black-headed Partridge {Caccabis melano- 

 cephala)* from Abyssinia, purchased October 30th ; not previously 

 exhibited in the Society's Avaries. 



(2) Two Red-billed Hornbills (Toccus erythrorhynchus), pur- 

 chased October 30th. This addition increased the Society's series 

 of Bucerotidce to eleven in number, representing the following six 

 species : — 



Buceros bicoi'nis, Linn., ex. Ind. 



rhinoceros, Linn., ex Malacca. 



elaius, Temm., ex Afr. occ. 



atratus, Temm., ex Afr. occ. 



* Perdix melanocephala, Riipp. Wirb. Abyss, i. p. 11, t. 5, 



