it has been, I am told, eight years, without exhibiting any per- 

 ceptible alteration in its plumage, or in the colour of its legs and 

 feet. 



" The Grey Lag Goose i§ by far the most rare of the four species 

 here referred to." 



Professor Owen commenced the reading of a paper, " On the 

 Classification and Affinities of the Marsupial Animals." 



