1895.] JIB. BOULBNGEa OU CHAMELEONS f EOil E. AITEICA. 273 



pylorus, and when the pyloric valve is closed and the gizzard filled 

 with masses of food in process of digestion, any water swallowed 

 could easily be absorbed by the crypts. Moreover the unusually 

 large pyloric glands must require an abundant supply of water. 

 However, this suggestion is of the most vaguely theoretical kind. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII. 



Fig. 1. Cross section through a single crypt (low power), ep. Epithelium. 

 a. Dense connective-tisue layer. 6. Connective-tissue stroma with 

 blood-vessels. c. Lymphatic tissue, d. Proventricular glands, 

 e, /, g. Cresceutic folds of the crypt in cross-section. 



Fig. 2. Enlarged view of part of surface of one of the cresceutic folds in 

 section, ep. Epithelium, becoming glandular at m,. k. Glandular 

 infolding of the epithelium in cross-section, a. Connective-tissue 

 layer. 



April 2, 1895. 

 "W. T. BLAifFOED, Esq., r.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Acting Secretary read the following report on the additions 

 to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1895 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie daring the 

 month of March were 83 in number. Of these 50 were acquired 

 by presentation, 20 by purchase, 4 were born in the Grardens, and 

 9 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period, by death and removals, was 109. 



Amongst these special attention was called to a Brazilian Three- 

 banded Armadillo (Toli/jjeutes ti-icinctus), obtained by purchase 

 March 29. 



The Acting Secretary, Mr. Howard Saunders, exhibited oh behalf 

 of Lord Lilford a specimen of the American Wigeon (Mareca 

 americana), lately obtained by Sir Ealph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. The 

 bird, which proved on dissection to be a fern ile, was found hanging 

 up in the shop of a Mr. Murray, game-dealer at Leeds, with a lot 

 of Common Wigeon, and had every appearance of having been 

 freshly killed. This was the only existing authenticated specimen 

 obtained in England since Mr. Bartlett purchased in the London 

 market, in the winter of 1837-38, the example now in the collection 

 of Mr. J. H. Grurney, of Keswick Hall, Norwich. Mr. Saunders 

 called attention to the fact that a specimen, shot at Crotoy, mouth 

 of the Somme, IS". France, in April 1875, is or was in the collection 

 of M. Marmottan, of Paris. 



Mr. Boulenger exhibited specimens of two recently discovered 

 Chameleons from Usambara, German East Africa, which had been 

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