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The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's 



Menagerie during the month of April 213 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, FaR.S. Secretary to the 

 Society. Exhibition of the behaviour of Birds and 

 Mammals in the presence of living Serpents 214 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.L.S., Curator of Birds. Lantern- 

 exhibition of Birds now or recently living in the 

 Society's Gardens 214 



Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., Curator of Mammals. Exhibi- 

 tion, on behalf of Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd., of 

 the skins of two Zebras from British East Africa 214 



Mr. R. E. Holding. Exhibition and Remarks on a 



Cirriped 215 



Exhibition of two curiously malformed eggs 215 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.L.S., Curator of Birds. Account of 

 the Poultry Exhibition now being held in the 

 Society's Gardens 215 



PAPEKS. 



1. On the Pectoral and Pelvic Arches of the British 



Museum specimen of Archceopteryx. By Branislav 

 Petronievics, Ph.D., and Arthur Smith Wood- 

 ward, LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. (Plate I.) 1 



2. On Heude's Collection of Pigs, Sika, Serows, and Gorals 



in the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai. By Arthur de 

 Carle Sowerby, F.L.S 7 



3. Report on the Deaths which occurred in the Zoological 

 Gardens during 1916, together with a List of the 

 Blood-Parasites found during the Year. By H. G. 

 Plimmer, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Professor of Comparative 

 Pathology in the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology, London, and Pathologist to the Society . 27 



