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Zoological Society of London. 



June 2, 1891.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of May, calling special attention to 

 a female Water-buck Antelope, Cobus ellipsiprymnus, from British East 

 Africa, presented by Mr. George S. Mackenzie, and to three Blanford's 

 Rats, Mus blanfordi, from Kadapa, Madras, received in exchange, new to 

 the collection. 



Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the animals which he had noticed 

 during a recent visit to the Zoological Gardens of Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, 

 Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and the Hague. 



Prof. Newton exhibited (on behalf of Prof. Stirling, of the University of 

 Adelaide), a drawing, being the first received in Europe, representing the 

 remarkable new Australian Mammal lately described by Prof. Stirling as 

 Notoryctes typhlops, which was stated to be the Mole-type of the order 

 Marsupialia. For a description see ' The Zoologist,' 1880, p. 424. 



The Secretary (on behalf of Mr. F. E. Blaauw) showed some Long- 

 tailed Tits shot in Holland, and sent to this country for the purpose of 

 ascertaining whether they belonged to the British form, Acredula rosea, or 

 the white-headed continental form, A. caudata. They were referable to 

 the former. 



Mr. F. Finn exhibited a hybrid Duck, bred in the Society's Gardens, 

 believed to be bred between a male Chilian Pintail, Dqfila spinicauda, and 

 a female Summer Duck, Aix sponsa. 



A communication was read from Dr. 0. F. Moellendorff, containing a 

 revised list of the Land and Freshwater Shells of Perak, with descriptions 

 of some new speies. 



A communication was read from Dr. G. E. Dobson, containing a sketch 

 of the derivation and distribution of the Mammals of the order Insectivora 

 found in the New World. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read a report on Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes 

 of which specimens had been collected for the West Indian Exploration 

 Committee in some of the Lesser Antilles, and deposited in the British 

 Museum. 



A communication was read from Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, containing 

 an account of the Butterflies of the family Lycicnidce, obtained by Mr. C. M. 

 Woodford in the Solomon Islands. 



June 16. — Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the cbair. 



Mr. H. A. Bryden exhibited an abnormal pair of horns of a cow Eland 

 obtained in the North Kalahari, and made remarks on the structure of the 

 feet of the Lechee Antelope. 



