490 ON AN EARTHWORM WITH BIFID TAIL, [ Dee. 12, 
presented by Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G,, K.C.B., on Nov. 
25th. 
A Capybara (Hydrocherus capybara), a Violet-eared Humming- 
bird (Petasophora iolata), two Purple Sugar-birds (Cereba cerulea), 
two Spotted Emerald Tanagers (Calliste guttata), and a Red-billed 
Toucan (Rhamphastos erythrorhynchus), from Caracas, Venezuela, 
presented by Capt. Albert Pam, F.Z.8., on Noy, 25th. 
The Secretary exhibited a coloured print, published by 
R. Ackermann in July 1812, of Polito’s Royal Menagerie at 
Exeter Change, London. Mr. Polito died in 1814, and the 
Menagerie was taken over by his chief assistant Mr, Cross, a 
relative of the well-known Liverpool naturalist. The Exeter 
’Change Menagerie became famous in 1827, because of the death 
of an Elephant which became infuriated and had to be killed. 
The Secretary was indebted to Mr. Howard Saunders, V.P.ZS8., 
for calling his attention to a long account of this occurrence 
published in Hone’s ‘ Every-Day Book’ for 1827, 
Mr. A. H. Cocks, F.ZS8., exhibited twelve enlarged photographs 
of Whales taken by him at the Finwhaling Factories in East 
Finmarken in 1883-89. The species represented were Megaptera 
longimana, Balenoptera sibbaldii, B. musculus, and B. borealis. 
Mr. Geo. P. Mudge, F.Z.S., exhibited an abnormal Dogfish 
(Scylliwm canicula) in which the proximal limb of the siphonal 
stomach was everted into the pharynx, where it took the form of 
a flattened spathulate-shaped sac. Within the sac (which was 
lined with ccelomic epithelium) there were contained the distal 
loop of the stomach, the spleen and pancreas. That it was a 
permanent condition, formed in the course of development, he 
believed to be shown by the great length of the lieno-gastric 
artery and by the presence of a peculiar triangular-shaped inva- 
ginated sac, supplied by this artery, and infolded from the dorsal 
surface of the everted loop of the stomach at its anterior end, 
Mr. Mudge also exhibited an Earthworm (Allolobophora sp. °) 
with « bifid posterior extremity. It was found at Bradfield, 
Manningtree, in Essex, and was sent to Mr. Cole, the honorary 
curator of the Essex Field-Club Museum, who was kind enough 
to lend it to Mr. Mudge for description. The worm was normal 
to about the 56th segment, or to rather more than one-half its 
length, when it divided into two nearly symmetrical branches ; 
the right branch at its origin was just a trifle larger than the 
left, but.otherwise the two were equal. 
A distinct anal aperture was present at the posterior extremity 
of each branch, and indicated that the intestine was branched in 
