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Mil. P. OltALMEIlS MITCIIKLL ON THE 



[June 1 0, 



Gnu, • I left Msongozi's on the 

 LoangwaE. and struck down the 

 valley with the object of making 

 Kambombo's. But I had only 

 gone one day's journey to Mwan- 

 kanka, when we were fired on by 

 a colony of slave-traders settled 

 there under a half-bred Arab, and 

 further progress was quite out of 

 the question." 



Mr. E. E. Holding exhibited 

 and made remarks on a tine shed 

 antler of the Circassian Eed 

 Deer (Oervus maral), which had 

 been shipped with a cargo of 

 bones and horns from Tiflis, on 

 the Black Sea. The antler had 

 9 well-developed points, weight 

 9 lbs. 2 07,., its length of beam 

 41 inches, length of brow-tine 18 

 inches. 



Mr. Holding also exhibited, on 

 behalf of W. Burton, Esq.,F.Z.S., 

 an abnormal pair of horns of the 

 Wild Goat frnni the Caucasus, 

 having a curious inward spiral 

 form (see figure). 



Abnormal horns of Wild i 

 from the CaiicasuB. 



The following papers were read :- 



1. A Contribution to the Anatomy of the Hoatziu {Opistlio- 

 comus cristatus). By P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., 

 RZ.S. 



[Keceirecl June 2, 18<J6.] 



The material upon which this communication is based consists of 

 several specimens of the Hoatzin, preserved in s])irit, and kindly 

 given me by ]Mr. F. V. McConnel, whom my friend Mr. F. AV. 

 Headley told that they would be of service to me. 1 am indebted 

 to the Society and to its Prosector tor the continued use of Ihe 



