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Show 1895.] LORIUS FLAVOPALLIATUS A N D PSITTACUS EEITHACUS. 337 corresponding with the dorsal margins of the coracoid grooves. From their median junction a less strongly marked ridge runs a short distance postaxiad, a marked fossa existing on either side of it and behind the transverse prominences. Numerous small foramina open round the margins of these fossae and thence backwards over a considerable part of the internal surface of the sternum. In both species the pleurosteon has six excavations divided by five septa, each of which bears two superimposed convexities for one of the sternal ribs. In L. flavopalliatus the manubrium, when laterally viewed, appears less elongated and less pointed towards its apex. Its anterior surface presents a rounded cup, in the place of an elongated groove, but the tendency to lateral bifurcation is rather more marked. The anterior margin, below the anterior cup, is convex preaxiad. The internal surface of the sternum has only faint lateral ridges coinciding with the dorsal margins of the coracoid grooves, and there is no postaxiad median ridge, but in its place a large foramen leading into the substance of the bone. M a y 7, 1895. Sir W. H. FLOWEB, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1895 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April was 73, of which 42 were by presentation, 6 by birth, 4 by purchase, 1 by exchange, and 20 ou deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 124. Special attention may be called to the following acquisitions :- 1. Two specimens of the newly described Irish Stoat (Putorius hibemicus) from "Wicklow, presented by Viscount Powerscourt, F.Z.S. It has been recently shown (see 'Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.' ser. 6, xv. p. 374 (1895), and 'Zoologist,' 1895, p. 124) that the Irish Stoat is a smaller form of the Stoat of Great Britain and requires to be specifically isolated. I exhibit one of the living specimens. 2. Two Mountain Hares (Lepus variabilis) from Norway, presented by Mr. 0. Gude, April 18th. 3. Three specimens of the peculiar Parrakeet of the Antipodes Islands (Cyanorhamphus unicolor), one presented by Sir Walter E. Buller, K.C.M.G., C.M.Z.S., one by W . E. Collins, Esq., and one by the Countess of Glasgow. At the time of the completion of ' PROC. ZOOL, Soc-1895, N o , X X I I , 22 |