324 MR. W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT ON BIRDS FROM JAPAN. [ Nov. 28, 
portion of the skull from another case whose history is unknown. 
‘Domain’ was stated to be five years old in 1903, so that he was 
seven years of age when the photographs were taken. 
The horns are about 2 inch in length, the left slightly larger 
than the right. There can be no doubt that they are outgrowths 
of the frontal bone. They are covered by normal skin and hair. 
Mr. Frank Slade, F.Z.8., showed three photographs of the 
Sea-Anemone (Anemonia sulcata), which had been taken from 
life in the Horniman Museum at Forest Hill, in the process of 
division. The first photograph showed the Anemone at rest after 
having made the initial tear in the body-wall. The second showed 
the animal, two days later, straiming to increase the tear, whilst 
the third, taken after an interval of sixteen days, showed the 
division completed. 
Mr. Douglas English exhibited and made remarks upon a 
living albino Field-Vole (JMcrotus agrestis) which had been 
captured last July in Wales. 
My. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited a living Lizard, Lacerta 
muralis, from Brozzi, province Florence, which he had received 
from Dr. A. Banchi, through the mediaticn of Dr. J. de Bedriaga, 
C.M.Z.S8. The lizard belonged to the typical form of the Wall- 
Lizard, but was remarkable for its black coloration, above and 
below. Melanistic forms of the Wall-Lizard were well known on 
small islands in the Mediterranean, but, so far as Mr. Boulenger 
was aware, no black specimen had ever been recorded from the 
mainland. The scales across the body numbered: 58 and the 
lamellar scales under the fourth toe 25 in the specimen exhibited ; 
these two numbers being sufficient to distinguish the Brozzi 
lizard from the melanistic insulars previously described. 
Capt. Albert Pam, F.Z.S., made some remarks on a living 
specimen of the Violet-cheeked Humming-bird (Petasophora 
iolota) which he had recently brought home from Venezuela and 
presented to the Society’s Menagerie. He also gave a general 
account of the habits of these birds, as observed by him, in a wild 
and captive state, and notes on their management and feeding 
while in confinement. 
Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, F.Z.8., sent for exhibition a named 
set of the Birds collected in Japan by Mr. M. P. Anderson in 
connection with the Duke of Bedford’s Exploration in Eastern 
Asia. No new species were discovered, but several of the spe- 
cimens were of special interest as illustrating stages of plumage 
not represented in the British Museum. 
