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mouth. In the Tapir this muscle, although shorter, is more like the 

 corresponding muscle of the Rlunoceros ; it has the same origin 

 from the i)one and is inserted near to the corner of tlie month. 



The Maxillo-nasal seems to be, if anything, rather less developed 

 in the Rhinoceros than in the Horse : it is not indicated in Marie's 

 figure of the Tapir. 



The Levator lahii superioris alreque nasi is composed of two [tor- 

 tious, which are decidedly more distinct from each other than in 

 the Horse ; the lowernicst portioi of this muscle, which is attached 

 to the lower jaw, corresponds to the muscular sUp regarded hy 

 Chauvean as homologous with the risorius. 



The remaining muscles of the head as shown in fig. 10 call for no 

 special comment. 



3. Ou the Breeding of the Sericma {Cariamu cristaia). 

 Bv Alfred Newton, V.-P. 



[Received January 15, 1889.] 

 (Plate I.) 



It may perliaps be remembered that as nearly as possible eight 

 vears ago our Foreign ]\Iember, Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 

 "entrusted to my care for exhibition to this Society a specimen of the 

 egg of Cariama cristata which had Ijeeu laid in the Jardin des 

 Plautes, and that I then expressed (P. Z. S. 18cSl, p. 2) the hope 

 that our own Gardens would, sooner or later, jtrodnce a similar 

 example. That hope has been more than fulfilled, and our Secretary, 

 in placing in my hands the eggs now before you (Plate I.), has 

 requested nje to make a i'ev! observations upon tliem. 



These eggs were laid by a bird presented to the Society on the 

 12th of August 1884 by Captain Jones, which had paired with a 

 male bought by the Society on the 23rd of August 1882. Both are 

 still living in our Gardens. The eggs were laid about the 1 5th of 

 May 1887 in a rude nest built in a basket placed on one of the 

 perches of a compartment in the Eastern Aviary, at the height of 

 about a dozen feet from the ground. I understand that the mother 

 sat uf)on them, but that they were found to be broken, aud were 

 then removed. 



So far as my memory serves me, these eggs present exactly the 

 same characters as that which was laid in the Jardin des Plautes, and 

 which was exhibited by me on the occasion just mentioned. They 

 also resemble in the same way that figured by Thienemann (Fort- 

 pflanz. der gesammt. Vogel, tab. Ixxii. fig. 14) to which I then 

 referred ; but Mr. Keulemans's drawings (Plate I.) are sufficiently 

 exact to make further description unnecessary. 



In May 1888 this same hen Cariama cristata laid two eggs, but 

 both were destroyed, as is believed, by the parents. 



