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Show 178 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON AN ANTARCTIC SHEATHB1LL. [Feb. 28, une nouvelle espece de Maki, remarquable par sou pelage enticre-ment noir et l'absence de pinceaux aux oreilles. J'ai pu constater que la femelle du Lemur nigerrimus est d'une couleur brune; cette forme a etc decrite par Gray en 1871* sous le nom de Prosimia ruflpes. II est iuteressant de retrouver pour cette espece des differences sexuelles comparables a celles que presente le L. macaco, dont le male est noir et la femelle brune (L. leucomyslax). Le couleur des yeux du Lemur nigerrimus et de sa femelle L. ruflpes est caracteristique: au lieu d'etre d'un brun-jauuatre, l'iris est d'un bleu tirant sur le vert. Je vous en envoie un croquis qui interes-sera peut-etre les membres de la Societe Zoologique. Ces Makis viennent du Cap d'Ambre au Nord de Madagascar." The coloured sketch spoken of in this communication was exhibited. Mr. Howard Saunders, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of the American Stint, Tringa minutilla, Vieillot, shot by Mr. Broughton Hawley on 22nd August, 1892, at N/ortham Burrows, North Devon; being the second example obtained in that locality, and the third that had occurred in England. (Cf. ' Zoologist,' 1892, p. 411.) Mr. Sclater placed on the table for inspection, on behalf of Mr. Richard M . Barrington, the example of the Antarctic Sheath-bill killed at Carlingford Lighthouse, Co. Down, ou the coast of Ireland, in December last, as recorded by Mr. Barrington (see ' Field,' vol. lxxxi., January 7, 1893, p. 15; ' Zoologist,' vol. xvii. 3rd ser. January 1893, p. 28)." Mr. Sclater observed that from the nearly perfect condition of the wings and tail it was evident that this bird had not been in captivity, or at any rate not within several months from the date preceding that at which it was shot. It was an undoubted example of the Yellow-billed Sheathbill (Chionis alba), of which the nearest previously known localities were the Falkland Islands (Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 154; Sci. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 386), South Georgia (Pagenstecher, Ber. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, 1884, p. 12), and the adjoining Antarctic Seas (Oustalet, Miss. d. Cap Horn, Zool. vi. p. 288). As would be seen by reference to the List of Vertebrates, 1883, p. 528, as many as nine specimens of this bird had been exhibited in the Society's Gardens between 1865 and 1882. The following papers were read:- 1 Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. ser. 4, vii. p. 339. |
