No. 127. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 
February 3rd, 1914. 
Sir Joun Rose BraprorD, K.C.M.G., D.Sc., F.R.S., 
Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 
The Sucrerary read a Report on the Additions made to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the months of N ovember and Decem- 
ber, 1913. 
Mr. D. Sera-Surrn, F.Z.8., Curator of Birds, exhibited a 
photograph of two hybrids between a Peacock and a hen Guinea- 
fowl which were bred in Germany and were now in the Berlin Zoo- 
logical Gardens, and remarked that there were three or four cases 
on record of such hybrids being produced, whereas there were 
only two instances known of the Peafowl crossing with the 
domestic fowl, and none, so far as he knew, with birds of any 
other genus. 
Mr. Seth-Smith also showed the skin of a hybrid Pheasant 
hen, which had been sent him by Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S. This 
bird was one of a number bred in Sussex by Mrs. Johnstone, 
between a cock Calophasis mikado and hen C. ellioti. It bore a 
very strong resemblance to the female QO. mikado, but showed 
a trace of the black throat and rufous barring to the tail of 
C. elliott. 
Mr. G. A. Boutencer, F.R.S., F.Z.S., gave an account of the 
collections of Batrachians and Reptiles made by the British 
Ornithologists’ Union and the Wollaston Expeditions in Dutch 
New Guinea. Four species of Batrachians and eight species of 
Reptiles were described as new. 
This paper will be published in the ‘ Transactions’ in due 
course. 
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