LIST OF CONTENTS. 

 PART III.— 1888. 



April 17, 1888 {continued). 



Note on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. Ey R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., &c. — No. 6. On some Species of the Genus Bigena 246 



May 1, 1888. 



Col. Irby, F.Z.S. Exhibition, on behalf of Lord Lilford, of a specimen of Aquila rapcux from 



Southern Spain 248 



Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.E.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of a 



Japanese Domestic Cock with elongated upper tail-coverts 248 



1. General Remarks on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands, and Notes on Brenchley'a 



Megapode. By C. M. Woodford, F.Z.S 248 



2. Description of a new Land-Tortoise from South Africa, from a Specimen living in the 



Society's Gardens. By G. A. Boulenqer, F.Z.S. (Plate XIV.), 251 



3. Notes on the Visceral Anatomy of Birds.— No. II. On the Respiratory Organs in certain 



Diving Birds. By Frank E. Beddaed, M.A., F.R.S.E., Prosector to the Society 252 



4. Observations on the Fishes of India.— Part I. By Francis Day, C.I.E., F.Z.S 258 



May 15, 1888. 



The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in April 1888 265 



Sir John Lubbock. Extract from a letter, addressed to him by Mr. George A. Treadwell, 



concerning a fatal case of poisoning from the bite of Heloderma suspectum 266 



Mr. Boulenger. Exhibition of^and remarks upon, a new Genus of Snakes, Aeemiopsfem . . 266 



Mr. E. E. Cotes. Letter from, asking for assistance in studying the question of Economic 



Entomology in India 266 



Mr. Henry Seebohm. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a series of Pheasants from Mongolia, 



Thibet, and China 267 



Prof. Bell, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, three specimens of a large Pennatulid. 267 



1. List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in the Main Range of Mountains of the 



Malay Peninsula, Perak. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.. Zoological 

 Department, British Museum. (Plate XV.) 268 



2. Descriptions of Four new Species of Ophiurids. By Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., 



Sec. R.M.S. (Plate XVI.) 281 



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