17s Mil. r. L, SCLAIEK OX AX ANTAIICTIC SILEATHBILL. [Feb. 28, 



une uouvelle espcce de Maki, remarquable par son pelage euticre- 

 uient noir et I'abseuce de pinceaiix aux oreilles. J'ai pu coustater 

 que la femelle du Lcimir nii/errimiis est d'une couleur bruiie ; cette 

 forme a eto dccrite par Gray en 1871 ^ sous le uom de Prosimia 

 rufipes. II est iuteressant de reti-ouver pour cette espece des 

 differences sexuelles comparables a celles que presents le L. macaco, 

 dont le male est noii- et la femelle brune (L. leucomifsfa^-). Le 

 couleur des yeux du Lemur nigerrimus et de sa femelle L. nifipes 

 est caracteristique : au lieu d'etre d'un bnin-jauuatre, I'iris est d'un 

 bleu tirant sur le vert. Je ^ous en envoie uu croquis qui intcres- 

 sera ])eut-L'tre les niembres de la Societ<' Zoologique. Cea Makis 

 vienneut du Cap d'Ambre au Xord de Madagascar."" 



Tbe coloiu-ed sketch spoken of in this communication was 

 exhibited. 



Mr. Howard Saunders, P.Z.S., exhibited a sijecimen of the 

 American Stint. Tfinija ntinutilla, Vieillot, shot by 3Ir. Broughton 

 Ilawley on 22ud August, 1S92, at Xortham Burrows, Xorth Devon ; 

 being the second example obtained in that locality, and the third 

 that had occurred in England. {Cf. 'Zoologist,' 1S92, p. 411.) 



Mr. Sclater placed on the table for inspection, on behalf of 

 ■NIr. Eichard M. Barriugton, the example of the Antarctic Sheath- 

 bill killed at Carlingford Lighthouse, Co. Down, on the coast of 

 L-eland, in December last, as recorded by Mr. Barriugton (see 

 ' Field,' vol. Ixxxi., January 7, 1893. p. lo ; ' Zoologist," vol. x™. 

 3rd ser. January 1S93. p. 28). 



Mr. Sclater observed that from the nearly perfect condition of 

 the yings and tail it was evident that this *bii-d had not been in 

 captivity, or ..\ any rate not uithin several months from the 

 date preceding that at which it A\as shot. It was an undoubted 

 example of the Tellow-billed Sheathbill {Chmns alba), of which the 

 nearest previously kno\vn localities were the Falkland Islands 

 (Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 1.54; Scl. P.Z.S. 1860, p. 386), South 

 Georgia (Pagenstecher, Ber, Xat. Mus. Hamburg, 1884, p. 12), 

 and tbe adjoining Antarctic Seas (Oustalet, Miss. d. Cap Horn, 

 Zool. A-i. p. 288). 



As would be seen by reference to the List of Yertebi-ates, 

 1883, p. 528, as many as nine specimens of this bird had been 

 exhibited in the Society's Gardens between 1S65 and 1882. 



The following papers were read : — 



1 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vii. p. 339. 



