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Fig. 6. Part of a radius of a yellow pectoral tuft-feather of Arachnothera magna. 
7. A feather of the breast of Psitfacula, natural size. , 
8a. Part of a barbule of the red part in the feather of Psittacula. 
8d. 3 & yellow bs +: 
8 C. ” ” green ” » 
May 16, 1882. 
Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following report on the additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of April 1882 was read by the Secretary :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of April 1882 was 124, of which 32 
were by presentation, 65 by purchase, 18 by birth, 3 in exchange, 
and 6 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 
during the same period, by death and removals, was 82. 
The most noticeable additions during the month were the following 
birds, all of species new to the Society’s Collection. 
1. A Rifle-bird (Ptilorhis paradisea), purchased April 4. This is 
a male bird in immature and worn plumage, changing very slowly 
into the adult dress, but apparently in good health. 
2. A pair of Black-headed Tragopans (Ceriornis melanocephala), 
imported from Calcutta, and received April 5. This is the first 
pair of this fine species that has reached us, although I believe that 
several examples of it have been previously received in Europe, and 
there is said to have been a single example of it many years ago in 
the Gardens. 
3. Four Riippell’s Parrots (Peocephalus rueppelli) from Western 
Africa, purchased April 15. This species was first described and 
figured by G. R. Gray in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for 1848 (p. 125, 
Aves, t.5). Two of our specimens resemble the figure there given ; 
the others have the rump and under tail-coverts blue. 
4. A Western Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus naso, Gould, B. 
Austr. v. t. 9), conspicuously differing from the Eastern C. banksi, of 
which we have also examples, in its smaller size. 
5. A male Cabot’s Tragopan (Ceriornis caboti), purchased April 
18, making a fine addition to the Gallinaceous series. 
6. Two of the recently described Green-horned Parrakeet, Nym- 
phicus uveensis, Layard (supra, p. 480, Plate XXV1.), which we 
believe to be a pair, purchased April 27. These have been placed in 
the Parrot-house, next to our two living examples of Nymphicus cor- 
nutus (cf. P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 550, pl. xliv.), and afford a fine oppor- 
tunity for the comparison of these two closely allied species. 
A mounted specimen of the Dusky Petrel, Pufinus obscurus (Gm.), 
which had been picked up dead in Norfolk in 1858, was placed on 
the table, having been sent up for exhibition by Mr. Henry Stevenson 
of Norwich ; and the following remarks by him were read :— 
‘The bird now exhibited was picked up dead by a gamekeeper on 
