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A communication from Dr. E. A. Goeldi, C.M.Z.S., contained 

 a description and an account of the habits of the rare Rodent 

 Dinomys branickii Peters, living specimens of which had recently- 

 been received at the Goeldi Museum, Pard. Dr. Goeldi was un- 

 certain as to the exact habitat of this animal, but he was of 

 opinion that it was in the almost unexplored regions of the eastei-n 

 slopes and tablelands of Bolivia and Peru bordering on Brazil. 



A communication from Dr. 0. Satunin, C.M.Z.S., contained 

 an account of the Black Wild Oat of Transcaucasia, which he 

 described as a new species, 



Mr, R. Lydekker, F.Z.S., described the skull of a Buffalo from 

 East Central Africa as the type of a new race, with the name 

 Bos caffer maWietosi. This Buffalo appeared to connect the 

 typical B. caffer with B. c. nanus, having horns approaching those 

 of the latter, but its skin and hair black, A white tip to the tail 

 seemed a special peculiarity, 



Mr, Lydekker also described from Ichang a new species of 

 Tufted Deer {Elaphodus ichangensis) differing from U. michianus 

 in its darker colour, v/hiter tail, smaller antlers, longer tusks, 

 shorter nasals, and certain other features in the skuII, 



Dr, A, Smith Woodward, F,R.S., rea.d a paper on two new 

 Labyrinthodont skulls acquired by the British Museum, They 

 wei'e the skull of a new species of Cajoitosaioribs from the Trias of 

 N. Staffordshire, which showed the occiput more clearly than any 

 Labyrinthodont skiill hitherto described, and demonstrated its 

 Amphibian character; and the skull of a new genus allied to Trema- 

 tosaiortcs, from the Trias of Spitzbergen, which was the first satis- 

 factory Labyrinthodont fossil described from the Arctic Regions. 



This Meeting closes the Session 1903-04, The next Session 

 (1904-05) begins in November. 



Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings of the 

 ZooLOGiGAL Society of London should be addressed to 



P, CHALMERS MITCHELL, Secretary. 



3 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 \Uli June, 1904. 



