586 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON CHAUNA CHAVARIA. [DeC. 3, 



December 3, 1889. 

 Prof. 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 November 1889 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of November was 83, of which 30 were by 

 presentation, 3 by birth, 38 by purchase, 5 by exchange, and 7 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 86. 



The following extract was read from a letter received by the 

 Secretary from the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk, C.M.Z.S., dated Cape 

 Town, Sept. 24, 1889 :— 



"From time to time I have read with interest that which has 

 appeared in the Society's 'Proceedings' concerning Bipalium 

 kewense^. Last year I found about my place at Rondebosch 

 several specimens apparently of this creature, some of which I 

 gave to the ]\Iuseum. This winter I have found other specimens, 

 some of which were very fine ones. 1 placed in a glass jar some 

 earth and living moss and added water. In this I have, during the 

 last six months, kept my specimens of Bipalium. I have covered 

 the top of the jar with fine wire gauze, and placed it on the floor 

 in a dark corner of a room under the folds of a window curtain. 

 Some of the large specimens of Bipalium have disappeared, but 

 I find that there are in the jar several young ones in a healthy 

 state, which glide over the sides of the jar, where I see them 

 during the very early hours of the morning. Those which I 

 placed in the jar have either bred or multiplied by division." 



Mr. Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S., exhibited a small collection of 

 Birds selected from a series obtained during the present year by 

 Mr. Hoist on the Bonin Islands. Amongst thera were specimens of 

 the following species : — 



Hapalopteron familiare. 

 Fringilla kittlitzi, sp. nov. 

 Cettia diphone. 

 Hypsipetes squamiceps. 

 Carpophaga versicolor. 

 GEstrelata hypoleuca. 

 Nycticorax crassirostris. 



Mr. Seebohm also exhibited a pair of Merula celcenops from 

 Fatsirio Island. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of the egg of the Crested 

 Screamer (Chauna chavaria), from the collection of Mr. J. J. 

 1 See P. Z. S. 1886, p. 166 ; 1887, p. 548 ; 1889, p. 5. 



