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li. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



16th May, 1899. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1899, 

 and called special attention to a young male Giraffe of the southern form 

 [Giraffa camelopardalis capensin) acquired by purchase, to four Masked Haw- 

 finches [Coccoi/iratisûes jjersonatiis], from Japan, also obtained by purchase, 

 and to three female Ostriches of the northern form [Struthio catnehis), pre- 

 sented by Mr. G. Fanshawe Abadie. — The Secretary read extracts from let- 

 ters received from Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., containing an account of the 

 progress of his expedition to the Gambia, and announcing his proposed re- 

 turn in July next. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited a specimen 

 of the Bornean Lizard [Lanthanotushorneensis]^ belonging to the Sarawak Mu- 

 seum , and remarked that it was the second example of this Reptile that had 

 reached Europe. An examination of the specimen had confirmed Mr. Bou- 

 lenger's suspicion that its affinities were with the Helodermatidae^ and that it 

 was not, as its original describer (Steindachner) had supposed, entitled to 

 family rank by itself. — Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, F.Z.S., exhi- 

 bited the skins of two Hares [Lepus variabilis)^ and made some remarks on 

 the winter whitening of Mammals in connexion therewith. — Mr. G. A. Bou- 

 lenger, F.R.S., read an account of the Fislies obtained by the Congo Free 

 State Expedition, under Lieut. Lemaire, in Lake Tanganyika, in 1898. Ten 

 new species were described, of which three were made the types of new ge- 

 nera. — Mr. E. M. Corner read a note on the variations of the patella in 

 the Divers, Grebes, and Cormorants, by which the functions of the bones in 

 these birds were explained. — A communication was read from Mr. Stanley 

 S. Flower, F.Z.S., containing notes on a second collection of Reptiles 

 made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 

 1898, and a list of the species recorded from those countries. The species 

 enumerated in the paper were 221, of which one was the type of a new spe- 

 cies, described under the name of Typhlops Floweri by Mr. G. A. Boulenger. 

 - — A communication was read from Marquis I ver a on the Wild Goats of 

 the Aegean Islands. A series of heads and some photographs of the Goats 

 of the islands of Antimilo and Joura were exhibited with the object of show- 

 ing that the effect of a cross between Capra aegagrus and C. hircus (such as 

 had been proved to have occurred on the former island) was not to produce 

 an animal corresponding to C. dorcas (Reichenow), and that consequently 

 the Goat of Joura had not, as was generally assumed, been so produced, but 

 was, as a matter of fact, a local variety of the Wild Goat, for which the 

 name C. aegragus, Y&r. j'otirensis, was suggested. — Mr. W. Cunnington 

 read a paper on a new Brachyuran Crustacean from Lake Tanganyika, ob- 

 tained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore, for which he proposed the name Limnotelphusa 

 maoulata. The Crab, unlike its nearest allies, was wholly aquatic, and would 

 seem to be the most primitive member of the Telphusine group. — A paper 

 was read by Mr. W. T. Caiman, B.Sc, on some Macrurous Crustaceans 

 obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika. A new genus [Limno- 

 caridina tünganyikae) and a new species of Palaemon [P. Moorei) were described, 

 it being pointed out that neither of them furnished any particular facts bear- 

 ing on the general question of the origin of the Tanganyikan fauna. — P. L. 

 S dater. Secretary. 



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