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names hitherto employed in systematic works for the bird called by Jerdon 
the Himalayan Cuckoo (Cuculus himalayanus, C. striatus, and C. intermedius) 
belonged to other species. He also gave reasons for not adopting S. Müller’s 
C. canoroides, and accepted the term C. saturatus, Hodgson, as the correct 
scientific name. — A communication was read from Mr. F. M. Woodward 
entitled » Further Observations on the Genitalia of British Earthworms«. 
This paper chiefly dealt with supplementary gonads which were found to be 
much more common than had been supposed; in one specimen an herma- 
phrodite gland was discovered in addition to testes and ovaries. 
18th April, 1893. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 
that had been made to the Society s Menagerie during the month of March; 
and called special attention to three White-tailed Gnus (Connochaetes gnu) 
from the Transvaal (a male and two females), obtained by purchase March 
7th, and to three Spring-boks (Gazella euchore) from South Africa, deposited 
by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. — Mr. Sclater exhibited and made re- 
marks on a specimen of a curious variety of the Pig-tailed Monkey (Maca- 
cus nemestrinus) from the Baram River, Sarawak, lately living in the Society’s 
Menagerie. — Mr. Sclater read a communication received from General 
Sir Lothian Nicholson, K.C.B., R.E., Governor of Gibraltar, respecting the 
Barbary Apes (Macacus inuus) living on the Rock of Gibraltar, which were 
stated to have increased of late years, and were now supposed to be nearly 
sixty in number. — Mr. W. L. Sclater, F.Z.S., made some remarks on 
the principal animals noted in the Zoological Gardens of Antwerp and 
Amsterdam, which he had lately visited. — A communication was read from 
Mr. A. E. Shipley containing an account of the anatomy and histology of 
two Gephyrean worms of the genus Sipunculus from Zanzibar, together with 
a few observations on Sipunculids in general. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas 
gave an account of a small collection of Mammals obtained in Central Peru 
by Mr J. Kalinowski. Amongst several species represented in this collection, 
either new or of such interest as to deserve a record, was especially noted a 
new form of Rodents of the family Muridae, proposed to be called Jchthyomys 
Stolzmannt. — Mr. H. J. Elwes read a communication from Mr. W. War- 
ren describing a large number of new species and new genera of Moths of ~ 
the family Geometridae in Mr. Elwes’s collection, from Sikkim and other 
districts of India. Notes on the localities and on other points were added 
by Mr. Elwes. 
2nd May, 1893. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 
had been made to the Society s Menagerie during the month of April; and 
called special attention to a young male Orang (Simia satyrus) brought home 
from Singapore, and presented by Thomas Workman, Esq. ; a White-bellied 
Hedge-hog (Erinaceus albiventer) from Somaliland, presented by H. W. Se- 
ton-Kerr, Esq., F.Z.S.; and a female Gibbon (Hylobates Muelleri) brought 
home from North Borneo, and presented by Leicester P. Beauford, Esq. — 
The Secretary laid on the table a list of the exact dates of the issue of the 
sheets of the Society’s »Proceedings« from 1831 to 1859, concerning which 
information had lately been applied for. — Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., made 
some remarks on the occasional protrusion of the cloaca in the Vasa Parrot 
at certain seasons. — Mr. Sclater also read some further notes on the 
Monkeys of the genus Cercopithecus, and called special attention to C. Bou- 
tourlinit, Giglioli, from Kaffa, Abyssinia, of which he had lately examined 
