542 PROF. NEWTON ON SYLVIA NISORIA. [NoV. 1, 



The following letter, addressed to the Secretary by Lord Lilford, 

 F.Z.S., was read : — 



" Sir, 



I think that it may interest some Members of the Society to 

 hear that a pair of Demidoff's Galagos {Galago de^nidoffi), purchased 

 bv me from Mr. A. E. Jamrach on Octolaer 9, 1891, produced a younff 

 one on April 28 ult., in a cage here. The infant was blind for several 

 days : its fur was very short and of a lighter colour than that of its 

 parents, which were both most careful and very jealous of their off- 

 spring. I am glad to be able to add that we have succeeded in keep- 

 ino- these three very interesting little animals alive and in excellent 

 health to the date of this writing on a diet composed principally of 

 cockroaches, mealworms, bread and milk, with occasionally a little fruit. 



" I remain, 

 " Lilford Hall, Oimdle, " Yours &c., 



October 19, 1892." " Lilford. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell stated that Mr. Carruthers, Keeper of the 

 Botanical Department of the British Museum, had handed him a 

 fine specimen of Bipalium kewense, found in one of the warm houses 

 at Straffan House, Kildare. So far as Prof. Bell knew, this was the 

 first occasion on which this now widely-spread species had been 

 recorded from Ireland. 



Prof. Newton, M.x\., F.R.S., Yice-President, on exhibiting (on 

 behalf of Mr. John Cordeaux) the skin of an immature Sylvia nisoria, 

 shot at Easington, near Spurn Point in Yorkshire, on the 19th ult., 

 remarked as follows : — "When on the 4th March, 1879 (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1879, p. 219), I had the privilege of calling the notice of the 

 Society to what I believed to be the remains of the first example of 

 Sylvia nisoria obtained in England, some of my friends thought me 

 rather rash in placing confidence in a specimen which had remained 

 unrecognized for about forty years, and had in the meanwhile changed 

 owners more than once. My conduct on that occasion has been in 

 some way justified by the recognition since that time of the occur- 

 rence of this species in various parts of the United Kingdom, and I 

 have now to lay before the Society an example which has been killed 

 in Yorkshire within the last fortnight, and sent to me by Mr. 

 Cordeaux for examination. The skin is that of a young bird of the 

 present year, and I may add that no doubt can be entertained of its 

 having been shot, as he informs me, at Easington, on the 19th 

 October, 1892, by Mr. Jalland. 



" I have long wished to refer to this species the ' East Woodhay 

 Warbler,' Sylvia bidehensis, described and figured by the late Hon. 

 and Rev. W. H. Herbert in the edition (published in 1 833, anony- 

 mously, but commonly associated with his name) of White's 

 'Natural History of Selborne' (pp. 129, 130 note, and titlepage) ; 

 and despite some manifest discrepancies, due perhaps to his having 

 only seen and not procured the birds, I cannot but think that those 



