2fi THK SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Feb. 5, 



About tbe 21st of June 1888 she laid another egg in the same basket, 

 and this was hatched on the 24th ot July. The young bird was seen 

 by our Secretary and our Superintendent, the latter of whom informs 

 me that it had much the look of a newly-hatched Heron. Its eyes 

 were open, and it was clothed with greyish-brown down. On the 

 next day the keeper (Church) found it had disappeared, it having 

 been doubtless eaten by one or other of its parents. 



Another egg laid by the same bird was hatched on the 7th of 

 September 1888. Our Superintendent, to guaid against a repetition 

 of the former misfortune, abstained from any inspection ot it, but 

 unhappily to no effect, for on the following day this nestling also 

 was found by the keeper (Samuel Bartlett) to have vanished, having 

 doubtless gone the same way as its deceased brother or sister. 



February 5, 1889. 

 Professor Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1889 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of January was 50. Of these 1 was by 

 birth, 22 by presentation, 17 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 8 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 116. 



The most noticeable additions durinij the month were : — 



1. A small collection of birds from Algeria obtained by purchase 

 from a dealer at Oran on January 10th. Among these are specimens 

 of Clot-Bey's Lark {Ramphocorys clot-beyi), the Algerian Shore- 

 Lark {Otocorys bilopha), and the Rosy Bullfinch \Erythrospiza 

 githagiiiea), all new to the Society's collection. 



2. Two White Ibises, purchased January 18th, and differing from 

 the White Ibises we have previously had in the Society's collection 

 in their larger size and bright red bills, as will be at once manifest 

 on an examination of the specimens now in the Gardens. They 

 would appear to belong to the species (or subspecies) designated by 

 Wagler (Isis, 1829, p. 760) Eudocimus longirostris . On the other 

 hand, on referring to Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 'Water Birds of 

 North America' (vol. i. p. 89), it will be seen that their Eudocimus 

 albus is the larger red-billed bird. This subject therefore requires 

 fresh investigation, and I commend it to the notice of American 

 Ornithologists. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a living specimen of the Thick-billed Lark 

 {Rhamphocorys clot-beyi) out of a flock of five which the Sf)ciety had 

 lately received from Algeria, and called attention to its peculiarities. 



