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Show 262 DR. W. BAIRD ON A N E W SCLEROSTOMA. [May 14, the allied P. rueppelli (Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 131), occurred in Zambesia. 8. A White-billed Parrot (Tanygnathus albirostris, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 336) from Celebes. 9. A male Lyre-bird (Menura superba) deposited April 21st, making up a pair of this extraordinary bird now living in the Society's Gardens. 10. A specimen of the rare Hapale argentata (Linn.)*, purchased of a Liverpool dealer, and stated to have been received from the Amazons. In his Catalogue of the Primates of the Paris Museum (p. 60) M . Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire had treated this species as an albino variety of Hapale melanura. This appeared to be quite erroneous, as would be evident from the inspection of the living animal. Moreover the habitats of the two species were quite different, Hapale melanura being from Bolivia, and II. argentata from the Lower Amazons, whence it was originally brought by La Condamine. From Mr. Bates's 'Naturalist on the Amazons' it appeared that the exact habitat of this species was the lower part of the Tocantins river in the vicinity of Cametaf. Mr. Bates had stated that it is one of the rarest of the A-Vmerican Monkeys, and that he did not succeed in obtaining specimens of it. Mr. E. Blyth exhibited a skin and the head and horns of a Wild Goat obtained in Crete by Lieut.-Col. Drummond-Hay, which he considered was referable to the Capra cegagrus of Pallas. Mr. Blyth added some remarks on tbe Mouflons (Ovis) of the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, and Cyprus. The following papers were read:- 1. Description of a new Species of Sclerostoma from the Stomach of the African Elephant (Lowodonta africana). By W . BAIRD, M.D., F.R.S., &c. In the ' Proceedings' of this Society for 1859, I described a species of Sclerostoma from the large intestines of a young Indian Elephant which had recently died in London, after having been only a short time in England ; this species I named, from a general resemblance to the form of a Sipunculus, Sclerostoma sipunculiforme. Recently there died in London a young female African Elephant, Loxodonta africana; in the stomach of this animal Dr. Murie, who dissected it, found a number of specimens of another species of Sclerostoma, which he has kindly deposited in the British Museum. * Le Mico, Buff. Hist. Nat. xv. p. 124, t. xviii. Simia argentata, Linn. Mantiss. fc. ii. p. 521; G m . S. N. i. p. 41; Scbreber, Saugeth. i. p* 13; Wagner Saugeth. v. p. 245. Mico sericeus, Grav, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 257, PI. X X I V *t L.c. vol. i. p. 162. |