Contents {continued). 



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 Mr. Sclater. Remarks on interesting animals observed during a visit to the Zoological Gar- 

 dens of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp, and Ghent 320 



Mr. J. M. Comely, C.M.Z.S. Letter from, respecting the breeding of Miehie's Deer in his 



Menagerie 320 



1. Notes on the Convoluted Trachea of a Curassow {Nothocrax urumutum), and on the 



Syrinx in certain Storks. By Frank E. Beddard, M.A., RR.S.E., Prosector to 

 the Society 321 



2. On a small Collection of Dragonflies from Murree and Campbellpore (N.W. India), 



received from Major J. W. Yerbury, E.A. By W. F. Kirbv, Assistant in Zoological 

 Department, British Museum. (Plate XXXIII.) 325 



June 29, 1886. 



The Secretary. Exhibition, on behalf of Mr. J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., of a series of 55 eggs laid 



by a Pacific Porphyrio 330 



Capt. J. A. M. Vipan, F.Z.S. Letter from, on the mode of Nesting of a South- American 



Siluroid Fish {Callichthys littoralis) 330 



1. General Observations on the Fauna of Diego Garcia, Chagos Group. By Gilbekt C. 



Bourne, B.A., New College, Oxford '. 331 



2. On the Birds obtained by Mr. G. C. Bourne on the Island of Diego Garcia, Chagos Group. 



By Howard Saunders, F.L.S., P.Z.S., &c 335 



3. On the Intervertebral Disk between the Odontoid Process and the Centrum of the Axis 



in Man. By J. Bland Sutton, P.R.O.S., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy, Middle- 

 sex Hospital Medical School 337 



4. Note on an Ectoparasite of the Menobranch. By Prof. E. Ramsay Wright, F.Z.S 343 



5. Descriptions of some new Species of Rhopalocera from the Solomon Islands. By Gervase 



F. Mathew, Staff-Paymaster Royal Navy, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Plate XXXIV.) . . 343 



6. Notes on some Birds from Perak. By E. Bowdler Shaepe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Zoological 



Department, British Museum 350 



7. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S. &c. 353 



8. On Lepidoptera collected by Major Yerbury in Western India. By AitTiiUR G. Butler, 



F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Plate XXXV.) 355 



9. List of a Collection of Birds from the Province of Tarapaca, Northern Chili. By P. L. 



Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.E.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate XXXVI.) 395 



10. Note on the Presence of a Columella (Epipterygoid) in the Skull of Ichthyosaurus. By 



A. Smith Woodward, F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History). (Communi- 

 cated by Professor Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President.) 405 



11. Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera from Tropical Africa. By Herbekt 



Duuce, F.L.S., F.E.G.S., F.Z.S. (Plates XXXVII. & XXXVIII.) 409 



12. First Eeport on Additions to the Batrachian Collection in the Natural History Museum. 



By G. A. Boulengee. (Plate XXXIX.) 411 



