472 MR. SCLATER ON A PENGUIN*S SKIN. [May 18, 



hand, free intercentra appear to be the rule. I have found one 



Fig. 4. 



Toccus erythrorhynchus. Caudal vertebra. 1 , lateral view ; 2, ventral view. 

 P, pelvis ; b, free intercentrum. 



or two of considerable size. In the Passeres I have never yet met 

 with these structures. 



May 18, 1897. 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a plan of the new 



Zoological 



Garden 

 attached to the " Museu Paraense de Historia Natui-al e Ethno- 

 graphia " at Pani, in Brazil, of which Dr. Emil Goeldi, C.M.Z.S., 

 was Director ; and called attention to the description of it and its 

 contents recently published in the ' Zoologische Garten ' (Jahrg. 

 xxxviii. No. 4, April 1S97), by Herr Meerwarth, Assistant in the 

 Par.i Museum. 



Mr. Sdater exhibited a skin of a Penguin received by him in 

 exchange from the Musee d'Histoire Katurelle of Paris as an 

 example of 2Iicrodyptes serresianus (Oust.), and read the folloAnng 

 note from ]\Ir. Ogilvie-Grant on the subject : — 



" I have carefully examined the specimen of so-called Micro- 

 clyptes serresianus, and find it is without any doubt the young of 

 Eudypies chrysocome (Forst.). The shape of the bill and soft 

 downy grey feathers of the throat point at once to its being an 

 immature bird. In the Eothschild Museum at Tring there is a 

 fine series of young E. chrysocome in different stages, and with. 

 some of these M. serresianus is identical." 



