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 Tiie Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in January 1891 121 



Dr. Emin Pasha, C.M.Z.S., Letter from, announcing the despatch to the Society of a Collec- 

 tion of Birds 122 



Mr. J. W. Willis-Bund, F.Z.S., Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of the Collared 



Petrel {(Estrelata torquata) sliot off the Welsh coast of Cardigan Bay 122 



1 . On the Question of Saurognathism of the Pici, and other Osteological Notes upon that 



Group. By R. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S. &c 122 



2. Descriptions of two new Species of Parrots of the Genus Platycercus. By T. Salvadori, 



C.M.Z.S. (Plate XII.) 129 



3. On a second Collection of Birds from the Province of Tarapacii, Northern Chili. By 



P. L. Sci-ATEB, M.A., Ph.D., F.E.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate XIII.) 131 



4. On the Pouch and Brain of the Male Thylacine. By Frank E. Beddaed, M.A., Prosector 



to tlie Society 138 



February 17, 1891. 



Mr. Edward Gerrard, Jr. Exhibition of a large head of a Koodoo Antelope {Strepsiceros 



kudu) 145 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some abnormal specimens of 



Clausilia ruffosa 145 



\Ir. Boulenger. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a renewed left pectoral limb of a Proto- 



pterus annectens 147 



Mr. Boulenger. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, young specimens and eggs of a South- 

 African Siluroid Fish (Galeichthys feliceps) 148 



1. On the Probable Existence of a Jacobson's Organ among the Crocodilia ; with Observa- 



tions upon the Skeleton of that Organ in the Mammalia, and upon the Basi-Mandi- 

 bulai Elements in the Vertebrata. By G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., F.L.S., Assistant 

 Profe.-sor of Zoology, Eoyal College of Science, London. (Plate XIV.) 148 



2. On the Vai-'ation and Development of the Leporine Sternum. By E. H. Burne, B.A. 



Oxon., P.Z.S 159 



3. On the Muscicapine Genus Chasiempis, vrith a Description of a new Species. By Scott 



B. Wilson, F.Z.S 164 



4. Description of a new Species of the Genus Himatione from the Sandwich Islands. By 



Scott B. Wilson, F.Z.S 166 



5. On British Eemains of Horaoeosauriis, with E^marks on the Classification of the Ehyncho- 



cephalia. By G. A. Boulenger 167 



6. Preliminary Account of an Earthworm from West Africa referable to a new Genus. By 



Fkank E. Beddaiid, M.A., F.E.S.E., Prosector to the Society 172 



7. On a Functional Ductus Botalli in Nycticorax violaceiis and Dafila, spinicazida. By Frank 



Finn, B.A., late Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford. (Communicated by F. E. 

 Beddakd, F.Z,S., Prosector to the Society.) .- 176 



