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the leg-bones and egg of an extinct bird of the genus Mpyornu from South- 

 West Madagascar ; and a series of Lepidopterous Insects from Jamaica and 

 from the Bolivian Andes. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on some skins and skulls of 

 Mammals obtained in the Shire Highlands by Mr. H. H. Johnston, 

 Mr. B. L. Sclater, Messrs. Buchanan, and Mr. Alexander Whyte. 



A communication was read from Messrs. F. E. Beddard and F. G. 

 Parsons, containing notes on the anatomy and classification of the Parrots, 

 based on specimens lately living in the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to two front horns of an African Rhinoceros 

 belonging to Mr. F. Holmwood, which were stated to have been brought by 

 native caravans from the district of East Africa, south of Lake Victoria 

 Nyanza. They were remarkable for their great length and extreme 

 thinness. 



A communication was read from Mr. R. Lydekker, containing an 

 account of a collection of bird-bones from the Miocene Deposits of St. Alban, 

 in the Department of Isere, France. The more perfect specimens were 

 referred mostly to new species, — Strix sancti-albani, Palceortyx maxima, 

 P. grivensis, and Totanus majori, — while others were regarded as undeter- 

 minable from their fragmentary condition. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read a paper describing some new species of 

 Reptiles and Batrachians, based on specimens lately obtained in Borneo by 

 Mr. A. Everett and Mr. C. Hose. 



June 20.— Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary exhibited and made remarks on two eggs of the Cape 

 Coly, Colius capensis, laid in the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. Walter Rothschild exhibited and made remarks on a head of a 

 Rhinoceros from Northern Somali-land ; a Caspian Seal, believed to be the 

 only specimen of this Seal in England ; and a series of skins of Parrots of 

 the genus Cyanorhamphus from New Zealand and other islands of the South 

 Pacific. Mr. Rothschild proposed to refer the specimens of this group from 

 the Auckland Islands to a new species to be called C.forbesi. 



Mr. W. Bateson exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of the foot of 

 a Calf, in which there were three toes springing from a single cannon-bone. 



Mr. A. Smith- Woodward exhibited and made remarks on some teeth of 

 a Ray (Myliobatis) from the Lower Tertiaries of Egypt, remarkable for 

 their enormous size. 



Extracts were read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Mr. F. E. 

 Blaauw on the breeding of the Ypecaha Rail, Aramides ypecaha, and 

 Darwin '8 Rhea, Rhea darwini, in his aviaries in Holland. 



Dr. Forsyth-Major exhibited and made remarks on a fragmentary skull 



