1899.] ■ ON THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE TUBnsrARBS. 381 



March 21, 1899. 



W. T. Blanfoed, Esq., LL.D., T.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, E.E.S., exhibited some specimens of his Mus 

 abbotti and made the following remarks : — "Among the fossil remains 

 of small rodents found in the ossiferous fissure at Ightham, Kent, 

 and described in 1894 (Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc. vol. 50. p. 188), 

 were a few rami of mice x'esembliog those of Mus sylvaiiais, but 

 wanting the characteristic front tubercle of the anterior lower 

 cheek-tooth. This fossil form was named M. abbotti, after Mr. Lewis 

 Abbott, whose zeal in working out the fissure had brought to 

 light these and many other interesting fossil remains. Mr. Barrett- 

 Hamilton has called my attention to the fact that Mr. Waterhouse 

 had previously used the name of Mus abbotti for a mouse from 

 Trebizond (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 61). I regret my oversight, 

 and avail myself of the opportunity, so courteously afforded me, of 

 rectifying the error. It is proposed to name the fossil mouse 

 Mils lewisi, so that it may still be associated with its energetic 

 discoverer." 



A communication was read from Dr. Gr. Stewardson Brady, 

 C.M.Z.S., containing an account of the Copepoda collected, chiefly 

 by means^f the surface-net, by Mr. Gr. M. Thomson, of Dunedin, 

 and by Mr. H. Suter, on behalf of the Zoological Museum of 

 Copenhagen. It was shown that several species were identical with 

 well-known European forms, and others closely allied, but that many 

 were entirely distinct and pi-esented very interesting peculiarities. 



This paper will be published in full in the Society's ' Trans- 

 actions.' 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Contributions to the Osteology of Birds. 

 Part III. Tubinares. By W. P. Pycraft, A.L.S.' 



[Eeceived February 7, 1899.] 



(Plates XXII. & XXIII.) 



Contents. 

 i. Introductory Remarks, p. 381. 

 ii. The Skull of the Adult, p. 382. 

 iii. The Skull of the Nestling, p. 393. 

 iv. The Vertebral Column, p. 397. 

 V. The Ribs, p. 398. 



vi. The Sternum and Pectoral Girdle, p. 398. 

 vli. The Pelvic Girdle, p. 399. 

 viii. The Pectoral Limb, p. 400. 

 ix. The Pelvic Limb, p. 401. 

 X. Results, p. 401. 



xi. Key to the Osteology of the Tubinares, p. 403. 

 xii. List of Works referred to or consulted, p. 410. 

 Explanation of the Plates, 410. 



i. Inteoductobt Ebmaeks. 

 Not a little has already been written on the Osteology of the" 



