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these muscles. Is it not also possible that they may actually repre- 

 sent, morphologically, the lower portion of the syringeal muscles? 

 This muscle becomes divided (as in the figure) into several strands, 

 which traverse the septum lying between the anterior and posterior 

 thoracic air-sacs to be attached to the parietes. 



April ], 1890. 

 Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1890 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of March were 06 in number. Of these 8 

 were acquired by presentation, K) by deposit, II bv purchase, and 

 -I by birth. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 78. 



Amongst the former special attention may be called to tlie 

 following : — 



1. A male Grey Hypocolius (Hypocolius ampelinus), presented 

 March 3rd, 1890, by W. D. Cumming, Esq., Curator of the Museum 

 of Karachi, and brought to England in the S.S. ' Branksome Hall,' 

 under the kind care of Mr. H. Wray. 



Mr. Cumming tells us that this bird was taken from the nest in 

 June 1889 and was brought up by hand, having been first fed on bread 

 and water, and afterwards on dates and other fruits. It would also 

 take flies, grubs, and grasshoppers as well as dry bread, bread steeped 

 in sugar and water, and was delighted in having a little lucerne 

 occasionally. 



This is, no doubt, the first example of this rare Passerine form 

 that has reached Europe. 



I exhibit a drawing by Mr. Frohawk (Plate XV.), which shows 

 its colours in life. 



2. Two Mantchurian Cranes {Grusviridiros(ris), presented to the 

 Society by C. W. Campbell, Esq., of II.B.M.'s Consular Service, 

 Corea, 31st March. These birds, though not new to the Society's 

 collection (as the species has bred in the Gardens and a youu"- one 

 was hatched out in June IStil '), are yet of sufficient interest to be 

 worthy of attention, as they are the first specimens received direct 

 from Corea. Mr. Campbell writes to me that this Crane is very 

 common in Corea during the winter months, and that numbers of 

 them are trapped by the natives for sale to the Chinese and Japanese, 

 by whom they are much appreciated. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a 

 hybrid between the Tree-Sparrow (Frtsser montunus) and the House- 

 Sparrow (P. domesticvs), bred in captivity at Norwich. 



1 See Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 369, pi. xxxv., where the species is called 

 Grus montignesia. 



