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Show CONTENTS (continued). February 5, 1488. Page Professor Flower. Remarks upon the Burmese Elephant, deposited in the Society's Gardens 44 Mr. F, Day, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of a Dog-fish (Acanthias vulgaris) internally devoured by parasites 44 Mr. Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skin of the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), shot in the neighbourhood of Helmsley, Yorkshire 45 Mr. G. F. Butt, F.Z.S. Exhibition of two examples of a Variety of the Red Grouse (Lagopus scoticus), shot in Westmoreland 45 1. On the Lesser Koodoo, Strepsiceros imberbis, of Blyth. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate IV.) 45 2. On some Species of Chiroptera from Australia. By W. LECHE, University of Stockholm 3. Description of a new Species oi Laniarius from Ashantee. By R. BOWDLER SHARPE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c, Department of Zoology, British Museum. (Plate V.) 54 February 19, 1884. The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in January 1884 55 Mr. SCLATER. Remarks upon a copy of the lately issued ' Guide to the Calcutta Zoological Gardens' and on an example of Bhinoceros lasiotis 55 Mr. W. T. BLANFORD, F.R.S., F.Z.S. Report on the Collection of Drawings of Himalayan Birds lately presented to tbe Society's Library by Mr. BRIAN H. HODGSON, F.Z.S 56 1. Contributions to the Systematic Arrangement of the Asteroidea.-II. The Species of Oreaster. By F. JEFFREY BELL, M. A., Sec. R.M.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College 57 2. Description d'une espece nouvelle de Gerbilline d'Arabie (Meriones longifrons). Par FERNAND LATASTE, C.M.Z.S. (Plates VI. and VII.) 88 3. Description of an Asiatic Species of the Neuropterous Genus Corydalis. By J. WOOD-MASON. (Plate VIII.) 110 4. On the Mollusca procured during the ' Lightning' and ' Porcupine ' Expeditions, 1868-(Part VII.). By J. G W Y N JEFFREYS, LL.D., F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Plates IX. & X.) Ill March 4, 1884. Mr. HOWARD SAUNDERS. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, two rare Gulls and a Dusky Shearwater • 150 Dr. CH. W. LUTKEN, F.M.Z.S., Letter from, containing remarks as to the possibility of being more than one Species of the Genus Tachyglossus inhabiting Australia 150 Mr. J. E. HARTING, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some antlers of the Roe-deer (Capreolus caprcea) from Dorsetshire 152 |