1909.] ON CySTICERCUS OF A TAPEWORM IN RAT-FLEAS. 741 



{Microglossus aterrlmus), 8 King Birds-of- Paradise {Glcinnurus 

 regius), 2 Greater Birds-of-Paradise {Paradisea cqyoda), and 5 

 Black Manucodes {Mauucodia atra), new to the Collection, from 

 the Am Islands, deposited on Aug. 17th. 



September. 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during tlie 

 month of September were 150 in niimlDer. Of these 101 were 

 acquired by presentation, 27 by purchase, 7 were received on 

 deposit, and 15 were born in the Gardens. 



The total number of departures during the month, by death 

 and by removals, was 161. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be called to the 

 following : — 



1 Hximboldt's Saki (Fithecia monachus), from Manaos, pui'- 

 chased on Sept. 28th. 



1 Maxwell's Duiker {Cephalophus maxwelli), from Portuguese 

 Guinea, presented by Dr. W. J. Ansorge, F.Z.S., on Sept. 8th. 



1 Sabre-horned Oryx {Oryx algazel), from the Sudan, ^3 resented 

 by G. G. Chetwynd, Esq., F.Z.S,, on Sept. 16th. 



1 Monkey-eating Eagle {Pithecophaga jefferyi), from Luzon, 

 purchased on Sept. 2nd. 



1 Horned Tragopan [C&riornis satyya), from the Himalayas, 

 presented by F. Naumann, Esq., on Sept. 9th. 



The Secretary, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., exhibited 

 the frontlet of a Mishmi Takin [Budorcas taxicolor), killed in 1903 

 in the country of the Mishmi tribe, IST.E. of Saikw^a, Upper Assam, 

 and lent by Mr. J. D. Berrington, of Abergavenny. The front- 

 let was in very fine condition and was that of an adult, although 

 the measurements were rather less than those of any specimens of 

 the same species given in the fifth edition of Rowland Ward's 

 '■ Records of Big Game.' The formation of the horns conformed 

 in every way with those of the typical Mishmi Takin as described 

 by Mr. R. Lydekker in the Society's Proceedings (P. Z. S. 1908, 

 p. 797). 



The Secretary also exhibited a carved wooden figure of a 

 Takin, presented to the Society by Mrs. Brian Hodgson, widow 

 of Mr. B. H. Hodgson, who first named the Takin and made it 

 known to science. The horns in the figure were well represented 

 but the modelling of the body was inexact. The carving was 

 made by the Khamti who killed the animals on which 

 Mr. Hodgson described the genus, and is referred to in the original 

 memoir (Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1850, p. 75). 



Professor E. A. Minchin, M.A., V.P.Z.S., exhibited two micro- 

 scopic preparations of the Cysticercus-Btn.ge of a Cestode found 

 by him in the body-cavity of rat-fleas {Gerato'pliyllus fasclatiis), 

 which he had dissected while investi'gating the problem of the 



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