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The Secretary read a letter from Mr. George Jennison, of the 

 Manchester Zoological Gardens, giving an account of the success- 

 ful breeding of Pine-Snakes in confinement. 



Mr. Charles Sillem exhibited some living specimens of the 

 Crustacean Chirocephalus diaphanus recently caught in a flooded 

 ditch on Eton Wick Common. 



Mr. T. Goodey, M.Sc.(Birnu), introduced by the Secretary, 

 gave an account of his Memoir entitled " A Contribution to the 

 Skeletal Anatomy of the Fish Chlamydoselachus anguineus, Gar." 



The Author dealt with the anatomy of the axial and appendi- 

 cular skeleton, paying particular attention to the structure of the 

 notochorcl. He stated that the notochord in this fish had generally 

 been regarded as unconstricted except at the extreme anterior 

 extremity, but that he had ascertained the presence of well- 

 developed, calcified cyclospondylic centra at the anterior end of 

 the column and of calcified cyclospondylic centra of two sizes 

 in the main caudal region. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, F.Z.S., read a paper entitled " Ad- 

 ditional Notes on the Birds of Hainan," based on a small collection 

 of Hainan birds recently forwarded to the Zoological Society by 

 Mr. Robert Douglas, of Shanghai, and, at the suggestion of 

 Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., presented to the Natural History 

 Museum. The collection contained several species of great interest, 

 and the two following were described as new : — 



Tephrodornis hainanus, sp. n. 



Adult male. Differs from Indian examples of T. pelvicus Hodgs. 

 in having the mantle and back much darker and of a reddish- 

 brown colour. 



Adult female. Darker and browner above than the female of 

 T. pelvicus Hodgs. 



Hah. Seven- Finger Mountains. 



Pitta douglasi, sp. n. 



Adidt male. Most nearly allied to P. soror, Wardlaw Ramsay, 

 from Cochin China, which it resembles in having the crown and 

 occiput dull bluish-green like the back, lower back and rump 

 bluish ; the fore part of the head, cheeks, ear-coverts, and lower 

 part of the throat dull pink, chin inclining to whitish, lores, 

 feathers surrounding the eye and on either side of the occiput 

 rust-red ; chest very similar but tinged with pink ; breast and 

 rest of underparts buff ; lower part of the abdomen whitish, upper 

 wing-coverts and scapulaxs greenish-blue like the mantle ; quills 

 brown, margined on the outer web, especially towards the extre- 

 mity, with pale brownish-buff, the five outer primaries white at 

 the base of the inner web ; tail greenish-blue like the back. 



Total length ca. 8*0 inches; wing 4-45 ; tail 2'05 ; tarsus 2*0. 



