No. 28, 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
November 28th, 1905. 
Dr. Henry Wcopwarp, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 
Mr. J. T. Cunnincuam, M.A., F.Z.8., exhibited some photo- 
graphs of a horse bearing incipient horns. ‘They were about 
# inch in length, the left being slightly larger than the right, and 
there could be no doubt that they were outgrowths of the frontal 
bone. The growths were covered with normal skin and hair. 
Mr. Frank Suave, ¥.Z.8., exhibited photographs, which had 
been taken in the Horniman Museum at Forest Hull, of a Sea- 
Anemone (Anemonia sulcata) in the process of division. 
Mr. Dovenias Eneuisn exhibited and made remarks upon a 
living albino specimen of the Field- Vole (Jficrotus agrestis) which 
had been captured last July in Wales. 
Mr. G. A. Bousncsr, F.R.S., exhibited a living lizard, Lacerta 
muralis, from Brozzi, province Florence, which he had received 
from Dr. A. Banchi, through the mediation of Dr. J. de Bedriaga, 
C.M.Z.8. 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 melanotic insulars previously described. 
Capt. ALBrrt 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 babits of these birds, as observed by him, in a wild 
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