ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE DURING [Jan. 4, 



Le jeune etait couvert de duvet gris, releve de taclies d'un brun fonce. 

 Malheureusement il a ete mange park pere, et les observations n'ont 

 pu etre contiuuees.' 



" The egg unfortunately arrived broken. It is white, very sparsely 

 blotched with reddish-brown, a few of the maricings taking the 

 form of irregular hair-like lines, and measures 2'24 by r62 in. 

 Thienemaun, in his ' Fortpflanzungsgeschiclite der gesammten 

 Vogel,' has figured what he professes to call a specimen of this egg 

 (tab. Ixxii. fig. 14) ; but, as is well known, the letterpress of that 

 work is incomplete, and no one can say whether the specimen was 

 genuine. In like manner M. des Murs, in his ' Oologie Ornitho- 

 logique,' has described the egg of this species (p. 368) ; but, again, 

 evidence as to the authenticity of the specimen is not forthcoming. 

 On the receipt of this egg from M. Milne-Edwards, I at once be- 

 thought me of an egg which had long been known to me as existing 

 in the collection of Mr. H. F. Walter F.Z.S. ; and that gentleman 

 has been so kind as to send it to me for exhibition to-night. This 

 specimen is considerably larger than that laid in captivity, and also is 

 more highly coloured. In appearance it at once calls to mind eggs 

 of the Eallidce, while the egg from Paris can hardly be said to show 

 such an affinity. It is to be hoped that before long greater success 

 may attend the attempts at inducing this interesting form to breed, 

 either in the Jardin des Plantes or the Grardens of our Society, so 

 that some more distinct conclusion m.ay be drawn, from the evidence 

 thus to be obtained, as to the affinities of Cariama." 



The following papers were read : — 



. Account of tlie Zoological Collections made during the 

 Survey of H.M.S. 'Alert' in the Straits of Magellan 

 and on the Coast of Patagonia. Communicated by 

 Dr. Albert Gdnther, F.R.S.^ F.Z.S., Keeper of the 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. 



[Eeceived November 4, 1880.] 



(Plates I.-XI.) 



I. Mammalia, by Oldfield Tho- 

 mas, p. 3. 



II. Birds, by E. B. Siurpe, p. 6. 



III. Eeptiles, Batrachians, and 



Fishes, by Dr. A. Gusthee, 

 p. 18. 



IV. MoUusca and Moluscoida, by 



E. A. Smith, p. 22. 

 V. PolTzoa, by S. O. Eidley, p. 44. 



TI. Crustacea, by E. J. Miees, p.61. 



The collections described in the following series of papers were 

 made by Dr. R. W. Coppinger, Staff-Surgeon of H.M.S. 'Alert,' 

 during the cruise of that ship on the coasts of the southern ex- 



VII. Coleoptera, by 0. O. Water- 



HOVSE, p. 80. 



VIII. Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, and 

 Hemiptera, by A. G. But- 

 ler, p. 82. 

 IX. Ecliinodermata, by P. J. Bell, 



p. 87. 

 X. Coelenterata and Spongiidae, 

 by S. O. Ridley, p. 101. 



