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corresponding with the dorsal margins of the coracoid grooves. 

 From their median junction a less strongly marked ridge runs a 

 short distance postaxiad, a marked fossa existing on either side 

 of it and behind the transverse prominences. Numerous sm^U 

 foramina open round the margins of these fossae and thence 

 backwards over a considerable part of the internal surface of the 

 sternum. In both species the pleurosteon has six excavations 

 divided by five septa, each of which bears two superimposed 

 convexities for one of the sternal ribs. 



In L. Jfavopalliatus the maniibrium, when laterally viewed, 

 appears less elongated and less pointed towards its apex. Its 

 anterior surface presents a rounded cup, in the place of an elongated 

 groove, but the tendency to lateral bifurcation is rather more 

 marked. The anterior margin, below the anterior cup, is convex 

 preaxiad. 



The internal surface of the sternum has only faint lateral ridges 

 coinciding with the dorsal margins of the coracoid grooves, and 

 there is no postaxiad median ridge, but in its place a large foramen 

 leading into the substance of the bone. 



May 7, 1895. 



Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.E.S,, President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of AprU 1895 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of April was 73, of Avhich 42 were by 

 presentation, 6 by birth, 4 by purchase, 1 by exchange, and 20 

 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and remoA-als, was 124. 



Special attention, may be called to the following acquisitions : — 



1. Two specimens of the newly described Irish Stoat (Putorius 

 hibermcus) from Wicklow, presented by Viscount Powerscourt, 

 F.Z.S. It has been recently shown (see 'Ann. & Mag. JN^at, 

 Hist.' ser. 6, xv. p. 374 (1895), and ' Zoologist,' 1895, p. 124) 

 that the Irish Stoat is a smaller form of the Stoat of Great 

 Britain and requires to be specifically isolated. I exhibit one of 

 the living specimens. 



2. Two Mountain Hares {Lepus variahilis) from Norway, 

 presented by Mr. O. Gude, April 18th. 



3. Three specimens of the peculiar Parrakeet of the Antipodes 

 Islands ( Cyanorhamphus unicolor), one presented by Sir Walter H. 

 BuUer, K.C.M.G., C.M.Z.S., one by W. E. Collins, Esq., and one 

 by the Countess of Glasgow. At the time of the completion of 



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