348 MB. F. O. PICKARD CAMBBIDGKONTHE GENUS EATONIA. [May 3, 



May 3, 1898. 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1898 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of April was 165, of which 101 were by 

 presentation, 43 by purchase, 3 were received on deposit, 17 were 

 born in the Menagerie, and 1 was received in exchange. The total 

 number of departures during the same period, by death and re- 

 movals, was 87. 



Among the additions attention may be specially called to two 

 birds forwarded by Dr. Groeldi, C.M.Z.S., from Para, and presented 

 to the Society's Collection. These are : — 



1. A nearly white fowl, stated to be a hybrid between a male 

 Guinea-fowl and a domestic hen, from Ceara, Brazil, where it is 

 said that such crosses are often bred and are called Tahy. This 

 bird looks, at iirst, so much like a common hen that one would 

 be inclined to doubt its alleged parentage imtil one hears its voice, 

 which is most unmistakably that of a Guinea-fowl. On close 

 examination it also shows a shght coronal helmet and indications 

 of lappets at the gape. 



2. A male Curassow {Cracc pinima) from the upper valley of 

 the Rio Grajaliu in the State of Maranham. 



Dr. Goeldi writes: — "This bird will interest you, as it has me, 

 because it quite agrees with the males of ' Mutum jpinima ' which 

 were brought to me by the Tembe Indians from the upper valley 

 of the Rio Capim, and, according to my opinion, settles the whole 

 question of Crax phiima of Natterer being the hitherto unknown 

 male of the females upon which the Nattererian species was esta- 

 blished, which species was afterwards united with Crax schderi 

 Gray. This being the case, the Nattererian Crax innima should 

 now be recognized." 



A communication was read from the Rev. O. Pickard Cambridge, 

 P.R.S., stating that as he found that his name Eatonia, proposed 

 for a new genus of Acaridea in a paper read on December 14th last 

 (see P. Z. S. 1897, p. 939), had been previously employed for a 

 genus of Brachiopoda (see 10th Ann. Report of New York State 

 Cabinet of Nat. Hist. p. 90), he proposed to substitute for it the 

 new name Eatoniana. 



