No. 43. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



April 9tli, 1907. 



Dr. Henry "Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair, 



Mr. R. I. PococK, the Superintendent of the Gardens, exhibited 

 a photograph and the skull of the specimen of Pallas's Oat (Felis 

 manid) that had recently died in the Menagerie. 



Mr. G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., read a paper on a collection of 

 Fishes made in the Eastern Watershed of the Transvaal by 

 Oapt. G. E. Bruce and presented by him to the British Museum. 

 The collection contained specimens of 18 species, of which several 

 had not been previously recorded from the Transvaal and five 

 were new. 



Mr. W. P. Pyorapt, F.Z.S., read a paper on the Osteology 

 of the Oligomyodian and Diacromyodian Passeres. After 

 referring to his previous contribution (published in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ') on the Osteology of the Eurylsemid and Tracheophone 

 Passeres, he remarked that there seemed little room for doubt 

 but that the Diacromyodian and Oligomyodian Passeres must be 

 regarded as divergent branches of a common stem. 



The latter suborder included the Tyranniformes, Phytotomidfe, 

 and Pittidse, while the former embraced the remaining Passeres. 



In the present communication some fourteen Families were 



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