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2. A Pretre's Amazon {Chnjsotis prcBtrii), purchased July 23rd ; 

 also new to the Collection. 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of August were 117 ; of these 63 were acquired by presen- 

 tation, 6 by purchase, 6 by birth, 1 by exchange, and 41 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period by death and removals was 96. 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of September were 84 ; of these 34 were acquired by presen- 

 tation, 22 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 10 were bred in the Gardens, 

 and 14 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period by death and removals was 78. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on two 

 specimens of Viryularia mirabilis, dredged up by tiie Hon. A. E. 

 Gathorne Hardy, M.P., in Loch Craigrush ; also two young living 

 specimens of Palinurus vulyaris, received from Mr. Spencer of 

 Guernsey, and a fresh specimen of Galathea striyosa, also received 

 from Mr. Spencer. The mode of stridulating of the Palinurus was 

 observable in the specimens. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a hybrid 

 Wagtail, between Motacilla melanope and M. luyuhris, one of three 

 bred some years ago in Mr. T. J. ^Monk's aviary at Lewes in Sussex 

 (being the same as those mentioned in the 'Zoologist' for 1885, 

 p. 24), and made some remarks on the probability of various 

 "Wagtails, closely allied, interbreeding in a wild state. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on 

 some specimens illustrative of variations in the plumage of the 

 Common Partridge {Perdix drier ed). 



A communication was read from the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing 

 on Urothoe, a genus of Amphipodous Crustaceans, and on a new 

 allied genus, proposed to be called Vrothoides, of which Urothoe 

 lachneessa, Stebbing, was the type. 



This Memoir will be printed in the Society's ' Transactions.' 



The following papers were read : — 



1. List of Birds collected by Mr. Ramage in St. Lucia^ 

 West Indies. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 Secretary to the Society. 



[Receifed July 25, 1889.] 



The series of birds collected in St. Lucia by Mr. George A. 

 Ramage, the naturalist employed by the joint Committee of the 

 Royal Society and the British Association i'or the investigation of 



