PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 13, 1863. 

 George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Dr. P. L. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to two rare 

 Fruit-Pigeons living in the Society's Menagerie, both of which he 

 believed to be new to the collection. They had been obtained by 

 purchase from a dealer, and were stated to have come from one of 

 the " South Sea Islands." The species appeared to be Carpophaga 

 microcera, Bp., and Ptilopus fasciatus, Peale — both of the Samoaa 

 Islands, in which group, according to Mr. Peale*, these two Pigeons 

 were frequently kept domesticated by the natives, and carried about 

 in a singular way, upon perches placed at the ends of long stakes. 



Mr. "W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a singular variety of the Domestic 

 Fowl, in which the webs of the feathers were broken up into minute 

 filaments. 



Mr. Leadbeater exhibited specimens of eggs of a species of Rhea 

 (supposed to be those of Rhea darwini), obtained by Mr. E. W. 

 Goodlake in Patagonia. 



The following letter, addressed to the Secretary by Capt. J. H. 



Speke, commanding the East- African Exploring Expedition, was read 



to the Meeting : — 



" Kazeh, Africa, February 17, 1861. 



" Sir, — I have the honour to forward by down-caravan a few spe- 

 cimens of the fauna of this country, collected by the expedition 



* Cassin's ' Mammalogy and Ornithology of the United States Exploring Ex- 

 pedition,' p. 264. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1863, No. I. 



