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Show 546 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Julie 20, megalopterus, and Teius rufescens (described by Dr. Gunther, supra, p. 541) are species new to the Society's collection. The Armadillo is of special interest as confirming a species established by Dr. Gray in this Society's 'Proceedings' for 1865*, upon a single specimen obtained by Mr. Bridges in " Bolivia." I have examined the typical example in the British Museum, and have no doubt of our specimen being identical with it, though in our rather larger individual the hairs are still longer. It is possible the locality ("Bolivia") assigned to Mr. Bridges's specimen may be correct; but I am somewhat inclined to doubt it. In a collection of birdskins made by Mr. Weisshaupt in the district of Mendoza, and between San Juan and San Luis, in the Argentine Republic, during the same expedition as that in which he obtained Dasypus vellerosus and the other animals, I have recognized several well-marked species, such as Drymornis bridgesi (Eyton), which are also commonly attributed to "Bolivia," but which were in all probability obtained by Mr. Bridges during his travels in the vicinity of Mendoza. 16. A Tamandua Ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla, Linn.) from the vicinity of Santa Marta, purchased May 29. The clever drawing of Mr. Keuleman's, which I exhibit (Plate XLIII.), will serve to give an idea of the external form of this animal, which has never been previously received alive by the Society, though we have at present two fine examples of Myrmecophaga gigantea living in the Menagerie, and have twice received living specimens of Cgcloturus didactylus*j\ Our Tamandua measures as follows :-Long. corp. 20, caudee 20, tota 40 poll. Angl. 17. Two examples of the peculiar Short-winged Rail of Lord Howe's Island, which I have lately described in this Society's 1 Proceedings' an Ocydromus sylvestris (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 472, pl. xxxv.). For our specimens of this singular bird, as for so many rarities previously received, we have to thank our excellent friend and correspondent Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney, N.S.W., and the authorities of the Botanic Gardens of that city. Prof. Newton exhibited a series of eggs collected by the German North-Pole Expedition, and transmitted to him by Dr. Finsch. The most interesting among them were presumed to belong to Calidris arenaria, partly from the fact that no other species was observed by the Expedition to which they could possibly be assigned, and partly from the fact that all of them agree in every essential character, and some of them precisely, with an authenticated specimen of the egg of this bird exhibited by Prof. Newton in January last, and figured in the Society's 'Proceedings' (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 56, pl. iv. fig. 2). This he then believed to be the first genuine egg * See P. Z. S. 1865, p. 376, pl. xviii. t One of these Ant-eaters was "received on approval" from Mr. Colston. Sept, 16, 1854, the second "presented" by E. Ii. Webb, Esq., Sept, 5, 1858^ The generic name is usually written Cyclothurus. Supposing the derivation of it to be (fixcXoiros rotundatus, I preler to write it Cgcloturus, |