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attention to a Yellow-crowned Penguin, Eudyptes antipodum, from Stewart 

 Island, New Zealand, presented by Sir Henry Peek, Bart., new to the 

 collection. 



A letter was read from Dr. Emin Pasha, dated " Bussisi, Oct. 6, 1890," 

 announcing the despatch to the Society of a collection of birds which he 

 had made on his way up from the coast. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, a 

 specimen of the Collared Petrel, CEstrelata torquata, which had been shot 

 off the Welsh Coast in Cardigan Bay, in December, 1889, and was new to 

 the British Avifauna. This is the specimen which was exhibited by Mr. 

 Harting at a meeting of the Linnean Society on the 6th November last, 

 and of which a detailed account was given (' Zoologist,' 1890, p. 454). 



A communication was read, from Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, containing 

 remarks on the question of saurognathism of the Woodpeckers, and other 

 osteological notes upon that group. 



Count T. Salvadori pointed out the characters of two new species of 

 Parrots of the genus Platycercus, which he proposed to call P. xanthogenys 

 and P. erythropeplus, both believed to be from Australia. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater gave an account of a collection of birds, from Tara- 

 paca, Northern Chili, which had been made for Mr. H. Berkeley James, 

 by Mr. A. A. Lane. Fifty-three species were recorded as represented in 

 the series, amongst which was a new Finch, proposed to be called Phrygilus 

 coracinus. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard gave an account of the pouch of the male Thylacine, 

 from a specimen recently living in the Society's Menagerie. Mr. Beddard 

 also described the brain of this animal, and pointed out its differences from 

 the brains of other marsupials. 



Entomological Society of London. 



February 4, ]89l. — Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, M.A., F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



The President nominated the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., and Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., Vice- 

 Presidents for the Session 1891-92. 



Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, M.D., of " Firbank," Hereford; Mr. Horace 

 St. John Donisthorpe, of " Belvedere," Crystal Palace Park Road, S.E. ; 

 Mr. F. W. Frohawk, of 9, Dornton Road, Balham, S.E. ; Mr. E. Ernest 

 Green, of 10, Observatory Gardens, W. ; Mr. G. F. Hampson, B.A., of 

 Thurnham Court, Maidstone; Mr. Frederick J. Hanbury, F.L.S., of 

 69, Clapton Common, Upper Clapton, N.E. ; and the Hon. M. Cordelia 

 E. Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenil worth, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



