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males of the latter. But when alive, H. cinerascens, with its dark 

 brown iris and miked reddish-pink upper eyelid, may be distinguished 

 at a glance from B. maculosus, in wliich the normal colour of the 

 iris is yellow and the upper eyelid closely clad with short feathers 

 that usually entirely cover it, though occasionally the covering is 

 slightly imperfect towards the anterior corner of the eye, showing 

 the colour of the evelid to be black. 



Two other African Owls must here be mentioned. One of these is 

 that very fine and scarce species from the Fantee Country in 

 Western Africa, which was described by Messrs. Sharpe and Ussher 

 in the 'Ibis,' 18/2, p. 182, under the name of " Huhua shellyi" 

 and was subsequently figured by Mr. Sharpe in his Catalogue of 

 Striges, pi. 2, under that of "Bubo shelly i." This noble Owl has 

 the bill yellow, which is unfortunately not shown in the figure, 

 but the colour of the irides has not, so far as I am aware, been yet 

 ascertained. The other species to which I propose to allude, " Bubo 

 leuco&tictus " of Hartlaub, is also WestAfrican, its range extending 

 from the Gold Coast to the River Gaboon. This Owl has a yellow 

 bill, but its irides are also yellow, as recorded by the late Professor 

 Schlegel in his work on the 'Museum des Pays-Bas/ Oti, p. 16. 

 I am indebted to Dr. F. A. Jentink, of the Leyden Museum, for 

 obligingly calling my attention to the circumstance of Professor 

 Schlegel's accuracy in this statement having been subsequently con- 

 firmed by Dr. Anton Reichenow's record of a young Owl of this 

 species which he obtained in the Camaroon mountains, and described 

 as having the iris pale yellow, and the bill, cere, and claws yellow 

 {vide Journ. fur Orn. 1874, p. 387). This interesting species is, 

 I believe, still unfigured. 



December 2, 1884. 

 Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary made the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1884 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of November was 82. Of these 4 were 

 obtained by birth, 39 by presentation, 28 by purchase, 3 by exchange, 

 and 8 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period, by death and removals, was 105. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were: — 



1. A pair of Tasmanian Wolves {Thylacinus cynocephalus), 

 obtained by purchase from Mr. B. Crowther of Launceston, 

 Tasmania, and received November 14th, being the first specimens 

 of this animal received since the pair presented by Mr. Ronald Gunn 

 in 1863. 



I have already alluded (see P. Z. S. 1883, p. 252) to the exertions 



