470 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. George S. Mackenzie ; a Horned Screamer, Palamedea comuta, 

 obtained by purchase : and a young doe of Speke's Antelope, Tra- 

 gelaphus spekii, presented by Mr. James A. Nicolls. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Dr. A. B. Meyer, a coloured 

 photograph of a variety of the Rose-coloured Pastor, Pastor roseus, 

 with a red head, obtained near Sophia ; and read a note from Dr. Meyer 

 on this subject. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger made some remarks on an early reference to 

 the Syrian Newt, Molge vittata, in Shaw's ' Travels,' which had been 

 erroneously recorded as British. 



Mr. J. J. Lister gave an account of his recent visit to the Phoenix 

 Islands, Central Pacific, and exhibited specimens of the birds and 

 eggs obtained there, chiefly Petrels and Frigate-birds, with four 

 specimens of Peale's Curlew, Numenius femoralis. 



Mr. Smith Woodward exhibited and made remarks upon the 

 frontal bone with horn-cores of an adult male Saiga Antelope, Saiga 

 tatarica, from the pleistocene deposits of the Thames Valley. The 

 specimen had been obtained by Dr. J. R. Leeson from recent 

 excavations in Orleans Road, Twickenham, and was the first trace of 

 this Antelope discovered in Britain. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford read a paper on the Gaur, Bos gaurus, and its 

 allies, with especial reference to the exhibition of the first living Gaur 

 ever brought to Europe, in the Society's Gardens. He described the 

 characters and geographical range of the three allied species of flat- 

 horned Bovines — the Gaur or Sladang (Bison of Indian sportsmen), 

 the Gayal or Mithan, Bos frontalis, and the Banteng, Bos sondaicus, — 

 and discussed the question whether B. frontalis is ever found in the 

 wild state. 



A communication was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, containing the 

 description of a new species of Squirrel from the Philippine Islands, 

 which he proposed to call Sciurus cagsi. 



Mr. R. Lydekker read a paper on a Cervine jaw from pleistocene 

 deposits in Algeria, which indicated the former existence in that 

 country of a large deer allied to Cervus cashmirianus. For this form 

 Mr. Lydekker proposed the name Cervus algericus. 



A communication was read from Dr. A. Giinther on the skull of 

 the East African Reed-buck. He described the skull of an Antelope 

 obtained by Mr. H. C. N. Hunter in Masai Land, which he identified 

 with Cervicapra bohor (Riippell) from Abyssinia, and pointed out the 

 difl'erences from the skull of the South African species, for which the 

 name Cervicapra redunca (Pallas) is generally employed. 



Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell described a graphic formula, designed for 

 the purpose of representing geographical distribution. The regions 



