No. 88. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



Noveml)er 29tli, 1910. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., Curator of Birds, exhibited, through 

 the kindness of Mons. Pauvvels, a blue variety of the Budgerigar 

 (Melopsittacus undulatus), as well as a yellow variety and a 

 normal green specimen. 



The two varieties showed distinctly the splitting up of the 

 component coloration, the blue bird lacking all trace of yellow 

 pigment, while in the yellow variety the blue colouring of the 

 normal bird had disappeared. 



Dr. William Nicoll, of the Lister Institute of Preventive 

 Medicine, gave a demonstration of his method for the collection 

 of Trematodes. 



Dr. R. T. Leiper, F.Z.S., exhibited two photographs and 

 some specimens showing Onchocerciasis in Beef imported from 

 Queensland. 



Dr. H. B. Fantham, F.Z.S., and Dr. H. Hammond Smith, 

 F.Z.S., contributed a paper " On a Possible Cause of Pneumo- 

 enteritis in the Red Grouse {Lagopus scoticus)." The authors 

 recorded that in Grouse-chicks dying of Coccidiosis, many of 

 which showed symptoms of pneumonia, they found Coccidian 

 oocysts in the bronchioles, bronchi, and trachea. The Coccidian 

 cysts in the bronchioles were probably capable of setting up 



* This Abstract is published by the Society at its offices, Zoological Gardens, 

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