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late Dr. Arthur Cowell Stark, whose tragic death at Ladjsmith on 

 JMov. 18th last had been recently reported. Dr. Stark, who had 

 spent many years in different parts of South Africa, and had 

 made its avifauna his special study, bad, it was believed, nearly 

 completed a second volume containing the remaining families of 

 the Passeres, the MS. of which Mr. Sclater had good reason to 

 hope would be recovered. 



Mr. Sclater had himself completed an account of the Mammals, 

 which was already in the printers' hands. Other volumes on the 

 Reptiles, Batrachians, Mshes, and some of the groups of Inverte- 

 brates would follow. 



The area embraced in the 'Fauna of South Africa 'would be 

 that portion of the continent which lay south of the Zambesi and 

 Cunene Rivers, and would contain the English Colonies of the Cape 

 and Natal, Southern Rhodesia, the two Dutch Republics, and the 

 adjoining German and Portuguese territories. 



Passing on specially to the Mammals of this area, Mr. Sclater 

 pointed out that, so far as his present information went, about 236 

 species had been hitherto recorded within these limits, but that 

 there could be no doubt that, especially among the smaller forms, a 

 great many more species remained to be added to the list by future 

 investigators. Mr. Sclater concluded his remarks by speaking 

 about some of the older travellers and collectors to whom we are 

 mostly indebted for our earliest knowledge of South African zoology. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Myology of the Edentata. By Bertram C. A. 

 WiNDLE, D.Sc., M.D., M.A., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Anatomy iu Mason University College^ Birmingham^ 

 and F. G. Parsons, F.R.C.S., Lecturer on Human and 

 Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomases Hospital^ late 

 Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 England. 



[Eeceived November 9, 1899.] 



Part II.— Muscles or the Hind Limb; and Summaky oe 

 Conclusions respecting the Musculature of the Order. 



The first part of this paper, dealing with the musculature of the 

 trunk, head and neck, and anterior limb, was read before this 

 Society on March 7th, 1899 {cf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 314). 

 Por convenience of reference we again append the list of animals 

 on the dissection of which our generalizations are founded. The 

 Arabic numerals before the name of each animal refer to the 

 mention made of it in the text, whilst the Roman numerals follow- 

 ing each name relate to the bibliography at the end of the paper. 

 "Where no such numeral is affixed it may be understood that we 



