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described, and these were divided into four groups — Hirundines, 

 Muscicapse, Laniinfe, and Gymnorhinse. This arrangement was 

 based not on osteologica] characters alone, but also on the evidence 

 of pterylosis and certain wing- muscles. 



The author proposed to include the Yireonidse with the Musci- 

 capse, and the Vireolaniidse with the Gymnorhinse. With this 

 last group he proposed, tentatively at any rate, to include the 

 Paradiseidse, inasmuch as there seemed good reason for continuing 

 to regard these birds as near allies of the Corvidje. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper on the Anatomy of 

 a Bornean Frog of the genus Megalopftrys, with references to 

 other genera of Batrachia. 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S., communicated a paper on "The 

 Winter Habits of the Greater Horseshoe and other Cave-haunting 

 Bats," the result of observations made in the Somersetshire 

 caverns, where at the end of December and beginning of January 

 he found that the Bats were not in profound sleep, but moved in 

 the caves and went into the open for food. This food, the author 

 showed, was not all taken when the Bats were in flight, but was 

 usually devoiu-ed when the Bats were at rest. The manner of 

 feeding was described and information supplied about the food 

 of the Greater Horseshoe and the parasites which infested this 

 species and the Lesser Horseshoe. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, the 23rd April, 1907, at half-past Eight 

 o'clock P.M., when the following communications will be made : — 



1. Mons. S. A. BuTURLiN. — On some new or little-known 

 Siberian Birds. 



2. Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., F.Z.S.— The Ears as a Race- 

 character in the Afi-ican Elephant. 



3. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S.— The Duke of 

 Bedford's Zoological Exploration in Eastern Asia. — IV. List of 

 small Mammals from the Islands of Saghalien and Hokkaido. 

 With an Af)pendix on the Cold-blooded Vertebrates by Mr. G. 

 A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



4. Mr. Henry Scherren, F.Z.S. — Some Notes on Hybrid 

 Bears. 



