324 MR. W. R. OGILVIE-GRAXT ON BIRDS FROM JAPAN. [Nov. 28, 



portion of the skull from another case Avhose histoiy is unknown. 

 ' Domain' was stated to be five years old in 1903, so that he was 

 seven years of age when the photographs were taken. 



The horns are about | inch in length, the left slightly larger 

 than the right. There can be no doubt that they are outgrowths 

 of the frontal bone. They are covei'ed by normal skin and hair. 



Mr. Frank tSlade, F.Z.S., showed three photographs of the 

 Sea-Anemone [Anemonla sulcata), which had been taken from 

 life in the Horniman Museum at Forest Hill, in the process of 

 division. The fii-st photograph showed the Anemone at rest after 

 having made the initial tear in the body- wall. The second showed 

 the animal, two days later, straining . to increase the teai-, whilst 

 the third, taken after an interval of sixteen days, showed the 

 division completed. 



Mr. Douglas English exhibited and made remai-ks upon a 

 living albino Field-Vole (Microtus agrestis) which had been 

 captured last July in Wales. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited a living Lizard, Lacerta 

 muralis, from Brozzi, province Florence, which he had received 

 from Di-. A. Banchi, through the mediation of Dr. J. de Bedi-iaga, 

 O.M.Z.S. The lizard belonged to the typical form of the Wall- 

 Lizard, but was i-emarkable for its black coloration, above and 

 below. Melanistic forms of the Wall-Lizard were well known on 

 ,small islands in the Mediterranean, but, so far as Mr. Boulenger 

 was aware, no black specimen had ever been recorded from the 

 mainland. The scales across the body numbered 58 and the 

 lamellar scales under the foiirth toe 25 in the specimen exhibited ; 

 these two numbers being sufficient to distinguish the Brozzi 

 lizai'd from the melanistic insulars pi'eviously desci-ibed. 



Oapt. Albert Pam, F.Z.S., made some remarks on a living- 

 specimen of the Yiolet-cheeked Humming-bird {Petasoi^hora 

 iolota) which he had recently brought home from Venezuela and 

 presented to the Society's Menagerie. He also gave a general 

 Account of the habits of these birds, as observed by him, in a wild 

 ■and captive state, and notes on their management and feeding 

 while in confinement. 



Mr. W. E,. Ogilvie-Grant, F.Z.S., sent for exhibition a named 

 tiet of the Birds collected in Japan by Mr. M. P. Anderson in 

 connection with the Duke of Bedfoi'd's Exploration in Eastern 

 Asia. No new species wei-e discovered, but several of the spe- 

 cimens were of special interest as illustrating stages of plumage 

 not represented in tlie British Museum. 



