886 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 



Mr. E, G. BouLENGER, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, photographs of a Common Grass Snake swallowing a 

 Viper. 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of cinema- 

 tograph films of Marine A.nimals, and asked the Society to accept 

 the series for its Zoological Film Library. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of photographs 

 of the Sacred Ibis nesting in the Society's Gardens, and said that 

 the last occasion on which the birds bad bred in the Gardens was 

 in 1877, as recorded by the late Dr. P. L. Sclater in ' The Ibis ' 

 (1878, ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 449). 



"Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., F.Z.S., gave an account of the 

 habits of Tarsius, and illustrated his remarks by a series of 

 photographs of living specimens which had been taken by 

 Mr. W. E. Le Gros Clark, F.Z.S., in Borneo. 



Novemljer 8th, 1921. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Y ice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Edgar P. Chance, M.A., M.B.O.U., gave an account of 

 his investigation of the laying-liabits of the Cuckoo {Cuculus 

 canorus) and the life of the young Cuckoo, and illustrated his 

 remarks with s striking series of cinematograph films and photo- 

 graphs. 



Noveinl)er 22iid, 1921. 



Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following Report on the Additions 

 to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October, 1921 ; — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of October were 147 in number. Of these 48 were acquired 

 by presentation, 36 were deposited, 10 were received in exchange, 

 34 were purchased, and 19 were born in the Menagerie. 



