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twelve and a half inches wide, and nearly a foot in height. There 
is a small nuchal plate, and the plastron terminates anteriorly in a 
long, upturned tapering projection. 
Brrps.—Mr. D. D. Daly, at a recent meeting of the Zoological 
Society of London, gave an account of the caves in Borneo, from 
which the edible birds’ nests are obtained. Of these, fifteen are 
known in North Borneo. Most of these are in limestone in the 
interior, but two are near the coast, and occur in sandstone strata. 
Mr. H. N. Ridley found a new species of tyrant-bird in his explo- 
rations of the island of Fernando Norohna. Mr. R. Bowlder Sharpe 
has described it, under the name Elainea ridleyana. 
Mr. R. S. Wray has found in the wing of the adult ostrich a ves- 
tigial structure representing the distal phalanges of digit III 
(P. Z S, 1887.) 
Among the thirty-five species of birds collected by Mr. C. Wood- 
ford, in the Solomon Isles, is a new crow, described by Mr. Ogilvie 
Grant as Macrocorax woodfordi. 
Mr. Bowdler Sharpe has described (P. Z. 8., 1887) seven new 
species of birds, from a collection made by Mr. L. Wray in the 
mountains of Perak, in the Malay Peninsula. 
Mr. R. S. Wray contributes to ‘the Proceedings of the Zoo- 
logical Society of London (1887), an important paper upon the 
morphology of the wings of birds. 
MamMAtia.—Dr. Dubois describes a sixth species of Anomalu- 
rus, under the name A. chrysophenus, in the Bulletin Société Zoolo- 
gique for January. It is most nearly allied to A. pelii of Tem- 
minck, and comes from West Africa. 
The collection of mammals recently made in the Solomon Islands 
by Mr. Woodford, consisted chiefly of bats. Nothing was before 
known of the cheiropterous fauna of these islands. The new forms 
= opus gradis and Nesanyeteris woodfordi, nov. gen. et sp. 
The length of the head and body of a skin of P. gradis was 
325 m. m., of which the head measured seventy-four m. m. 
