1882. ] MR. SCLATER ON THE WORD “‘ LIPOTYPE.” 311 
March 21, 1882. 
Prof, W. H. Flower, LL.D. F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of February 1882 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of February was 59, of which 22 were by 
presentation, 26 by purchase, 3 by birth, 2 were received in exchange, 
and 6 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 
period, by death and removals, was 89. 
The most noticeable additions during the month of February 
were as follows :— 
1, Four Warty-faced Honey-eaters (Xanthomyza phrygia), and 
2. Two Musk-Ducks (Biziura lobata), purchased February 8th. 
Both these Australian species are new to the Society’s Collection ; 
and, so far as I know, examples of them have not been previously 
brought alive to Europe. 
3. A young Tapir, born in the Gardens February 12th, and 
thriving well, is the produce of our male Tapirus roulini (received 
May 25th, 1878) and the large female Tapirus americanus from 
Paraguay, received January 16th, 1873. It is the first of the genus 
bred in the Society’s Gardens. 
4. A female Mule Deer (Cervus macrotis) from the Western 
United States, presented by Dr. J. D, Caton, C.M.Z.S., and received 
February 15th. . 
Thanks to Dr. Caton’s kind exertions we have now a fine pair 
(besides an odd male) of this beautiful Deer, and shall, I trust, 
succeed in breeding them. The female just received is in excellent 
health and very tame. 
Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a mummified bird forwarded by Mr. 
George Holland of Swansea, and received by him from an island 
on the coast of Peru, whence it was brought home by the master of 
the ship ‘Nero.’ It was evidently a young Gannet, and most probably 
referable to Sula fiber, a species common on the South-Pacific and 
South-Atlantic coasts. 
The island in question appeared to be a great breeding-haunt of 
sea-fowl ; and the deposit of guano there was very considerable. The 
bird was found in a sitting posture completely buried in the guano 
at a great depth. It had accordingly been so well preserved as to 
be easily recognizable, although it must have been buried for some 
considerable time. Three eggs exhibited, in much the same con- 
dition, were obtained at the same time and place. One was probably 
the egg of a Gull, the others those of a Tern. 
Mr. Sclater stated that in the course of some lectures lately given 
at the Royal Institution on the geographical distribution of animals, 
he had found it convenient to coin a term for the designation of a 
