No. 161. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



November 7th, 1916. 



Dr. S. F. Haemer, M.A., 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 a series 

 of skins of nestling birds representing more than seventy species. 

 He called ^attention to the striped colour-pattei-n in such very 

 distinct species as Rheas, Sheldrakes, and Pheasants, and remarked 

 that this pattern was evidently of very great antiquity and in- 

 herited from some common ancestor. He also drew attention to 

 the young of the Coscoroba Swan, which was the only swan — if, 

 indeed, it was a swan — that showed a distinct colour-pattern in 

 the nestling down. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, 

 exhibited a series of lantern-slides to illustrate the position and 

 structure of some new and little-known cutaneous scent-glands 

 in Mammals, and drew special attention to the presence of 

 inguinal glands in Orycteropus, digital glands in Potamochcerus, 

 metatarsal glands in Lama, and a preputial gland in Nototragus, 

 which apparently had not been previously described. 



Dr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S. , F.Z.S., read a paper con- 

 taining the descriptions of two new species of Cestodes. The 

 fir'st species was obtained from a Slow Lemur and was refei-red to 

 the genus Linstoivia ; the second occurred in a Black-headed 

 Partridge and was placed in the genus Cotugnia. 



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