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Show 1895.] ME. BOULENGEE ON CHAMELEONS FEOM E. AFEICA. 273 pylorus, and when the pyloric valve is closed and the gizzard filled with masses of food in process of digestion, any water swallowed could easily be absorbed by the crypts. Moreover the unusually large pyloric glands must require an abundant supply of water. However, this suggestion is of the most vaguely theoretical kind. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII. Fig. 1. Cross section through a single crypt (low power), ep. Epithelium. a. Dense connective-tisue layer, b. Connective-tissue stroma with blood-vessels. c. Lymphatic tissue. d. Proventricular glands. e, f, g. Crescentic folds of the crypt in cross-section. Fig. 2. Enlarged view of part of surface of one of the crescentic folds in section, ep. Epithelium, becoming glandular at m. Je. Glandular infolding of the epithelium in cross-section, a. Connective-tissue layer. April 2, 1895. W. T. BLANFOED, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Acting Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1895 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March were 83 in number. Of these 50 were acquired by presentation, 20 by purchase, 4 were born in the Gardens, and 9 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 109. Amongst these special attention was called to a Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo (Toli/peutes tricinctus), obtained by purchase March 29. The Acting Secretary, Mr. Howard Saunders, exhibited O H behalf of Lord Lilford a specimen of the American Wigeon (Mareca americana), lately obtained by Sir Ealph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. The bird, which proved on dissection to be a fenrile, was found hanging up in the shop of a Mr. Murray, game-dealer at Leeds, with a lot of Common Wigeon, and had every appearance of having been freshly killed. This was the only existing authenticated specimen obtained in England since Mr. Bartlett purchased in the London market, in the winter of 1837-38, the example now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, of Keswick Hall, Norwich. Mr. Saunders called attention to the fact that a specimen, shot at Crotoy, mouth of the Somme, N . France, in April 1875, is or was in the collection of M . Marmottan, of Paris. Mr. Boulenger exhibited specimens of two recently discovered Chameleons from Usambara, German East Africa, which had been PBOC ZOOL. Soc-1895, No. XVIII. 18 |