370 DR. B. C. A. ^VTNDLE AND MR. F. 6. PARSONS ON THE [Apr. 6, 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XXV. 



Crania of Potamochmrus, side view. ^ natural size. 

 Fig. L Potamochaeriis chceropoiamits d(emonis, J. B.M. 92.4.24.4. 



2. P. Inrvatm, 5 ■ From Ampitambe forest (Madagaacar). 



3. P.johnstoiii, 2- Type. B.M. 9L.5.9.5. 



4. P. chmropotamus nyascB, (S . B.M. 94.3.18.9. 



Plate XXVI. 

 Crania of Potamochmrus, upper view. ^ natural size. 



Fig. I. Potamocheerus joh?istoni, 2 • Type. B.M. 91.5.9.5. 



2. P. larvatus, $ . (Aiupitambe, Madagascar.) 



3. P. clmropotamiis dmmonis, $. B.M. 92.4.24.4. 



4. P. choeropotamus ni/asce, (^ . B.M. 94.3.18.9. 



April 6, 1897. 

 W. T. Blanfobd, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, ia the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the mouth of March 1897 : — ^ 



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

 gerie during the month of March was 152, of which 44 were 

 by presentation, 2 by birth, 42 by purchase, 30 were received in 

 exchange, and 34 on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period by death and removals was 106. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to two examples 

 of the Indian Pigmy Goose {Neitopus coromandellanus), presented by 

 Prank Pinn, Esq., B.A., F.Z.S., of Calcutta, on March 22nd. 

 Many attempts have previously been made to introduce this bird 

 into Europe, but without success ; and these are the first specimens 

 that have reached the Society's Gardens alive. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. A. J. La\yford Jones, 

 a curious cinnamon-coloured variety of the Blackbird {Turdus 

 merula), which had been captured near Dorking, Surrey. 



The following papers were read : — 



1, On the Myology of the Terrestrial Carnivora. — Part I. 

 Muscles of the Head, Neck, and Fore-Limb. By B. C. 

 A. WiNDLE, M.A., M.D., D.Sc., Professor of Anatomy 

 at Mason College, Birmingham, and F. G. Parsons, 

 F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative 

 Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital. 



[Received February 11, 1897.] 



During the last four or five years a considerable number of 

 bodies of carnivorous animals have come into our possession, partly 



