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September 23, 1834. 



Dr. Marshall Hall, in the Chair. 



A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by John Hearne, 

 Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., and dated Port au Prince, July 16, 1834. 

 It accompanied a present of " an Alligator from the river Artiboniti," 

 which is referrible to the Crocodilus acutus, Cuv. ; and of some Doves. 

 These are the little Ground Dove or Ortolan of the English residents 

 in Hayti, Columba passerina, Linn.; and the red-legged Partridge, as 

 it is called in that island. Col. mystacea, Temm. Mr. Hearne ad- 

 verts to some other animals which he has observed in Hayti, and 

 expresses his hopes of succeeding in bringing or sending them to 

 England. 



The Secretary adverted to some other animals lately added to the 

 Menagerie, and which he regarded as interesting either in a scien- 

 tific point of view, or on account of their not having been previously 

 contained in the collection. They included the silky Monkey, Midas 

 Rosalia, Geoif., of which a specimen has recently been presented by 

 T. Manton, Esq. ; the Javanese Ichneumon, Herpestes Javanicus, 

 Geoff. ; the African Moufflon, Ovis Tragelaphus, GeolF., presented 

 by Sir Thomas Reade, His Majesty's Consul- General at Tunis ; and 

 a remarkably darkly coloured variety of the European Bear, Ursus 

 Arctos, Linn., presented by R. H. Beaumont, Esq. 



Among the Birds there have been added a pair of the pied Pigeon 

 of New Holland, Columba armillaris, Temm. ; a pair of the Caper- 

 cailzie or Cock of the Woods, Tetrao Urogallus, Linn., obtained from 

 Norway and presented to the Society by J. H. Pelly, jun., Esq. ; a 

 pair of the Buffonian Touraco, Corythaix Buffonii, Le Vaill. ; and a 

 specimen of the naked-legged Owl of the Indian Islands, Ketupa Ja- 

 vanensis,hess., (Strix Ketupu, Horsf.,) presented by James Harby, 

 Esq., and stated to have been brought from Manilla. 



Among the Reptiles there have recently been added an interesting 

 collection of Tortoises from China, presented by John Russel Reeves, 

 Esq., of Canton, and including specimens of the three-banded Box- 

 Tortoise, Cistuda trifasciata. Gray ; of Spengler's Terrapin, Geoemyda 

 Spengleri, Gray, (Tesfudo Spengleri, Wcdh.); of the Emys Sinen- 

 sis, Em. Reevesii, and Em. Bealii, all lately described by Mr. Gray ; 

 and also of the Platysternon megacephalum, Gray. A Crocodile ap- 

 parently referrible to the Crocodilus cataphractus , Cuv., is eJso at 

 present living in the Menagerie: its nuchal plates constitute a 

 series continuous with those of the back, but consist of only four 

 rows instead of five, the number existing in the individual on which 

 the species was originally founded. The specimen is stated to have 

 been brought from Fernando Po. 



Mr. Ogilby called the attention of the Meeting to a specimen of 



