358 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE EDENTATA.  [Apr. 18, 
in tint on the chest, breast, and under tail-coverts; bill brown, 
whitish on the lower margin and on the under mandible; no ring 
round the eye; ear-coverts and sides of the face like the head. 
Length of skin 3°7 inches, wing 2°5, tail 1:9, tarsus 0°7; bill 
from forehead 0°5, from anterior margin of nasal groove 0°3, from 
gape 0°6. 
The flank-plumes are rather elongated and somewhat decomposed. 
Hab, Aru Islands ? 
April 18, 1882. 
Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following report on the additions to the Society’s Menagerie 
during the month of March 1882 was read by the Secretary :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of March 1882 was 54, of which 26 were 
by presentation, 16 by purchase, 3 by birth, and 9 were received on 
deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 
by death and removals, was 81. 
The most noticeable addition during the month was :— 
A Radiated Fruit-Cuckoo (Carpococcyx radiatus) from Sumatra, 
purchased March 31st. 
The gait and actions of this remarkable Grouwnd-Cuckoo remind 
one more of a Gallinaceous bird or a Gallinule than of any of its 
arboreal relatives of the same family. ‘The form is quite new to the 
Society’s Collection, 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On the Mutual Affinities of the Animals composing the 
Order Eprentata. By Witi1am Henry Frower, LL.D., 
F.R.S., Pres. Zool. Soc., &c. 
[Received April 4, 1882.] 
The name assigned to this order by Cuvier is often objected to 
as inappropriate, as, though some of its members are edentulous, 
others have very numerous teeth; and the Linnean name Bruta is 
occasionally revived by modern authors. But that term is quite as 
objectionable, especially as the group to which Linneus applied it 
is by no means equivalent to the order as now understood, but con- 
tained all the animals then known which are comprised in the 
modern orders Proboscidea, Sirenia, and Edentata, together with 
the Walrus, one of the Carnivora. If retained at all, it should 
rather belong to the Prodoscidea, as Elephas stands first in the list 
of genera of Bruta in the ‘Systema Nature,’ and was probably in 
the mind of Linnzus when he assigned the name to the group. 
