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Show 1867.] T H E SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 179 LEUCOSPIZA NOV^E-HOLLANDI^E, Gmel. Falco novee-hollandice, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 264. Astur novee-hollandice, Cuv. Reg. An. 320 ; Vig. & Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 179 ; Gould, Birds of Austr.; Schleg. Valkv. t. 11. Falco albus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. 92 ; White's Voy. p. 250. Astur albus, Sw. Class, of B. ii. p. 215. Sparvius niveus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. p. 338. Dcedalion candidum, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 66. Falco leucaetus, Forst. Descr. Orn. p. 70; Icon. ined. 35. Astur rayii, Vig. & Horsf. L. Tr. xv. p. 180. Falco clarus,'Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xiii. Astur (Leucospiza) novee-hollandice, Kp. Falc. 197- This species is also found in New Guinea, but probably only accidentally. There is no doubt that it breeds in the plumage of youth, which has bands. It is also said to prey upon fish. February 14, 1867. John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater read an extract from a letter from Mr. W. T. Blanford, of the Indian Geological Survey, containing a notice of the interesting fact that a species of Platanista is common in the river Irrawaddi, probably differing from the species of the Indus and the Ganges. Mr. P. L. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to several recent additions to the Society's Menagerie, amongst which were:- 1. A Kagu (Rhinochetus jubatus), brought to this country in the ship ' Curacoa,' and acquired by purchase for the Society on the 5th inst. This made up two pairs of this scarce bird now in the Society's Gardens. 2. A n additional example of the Mooruk or Bennett's Cassowary (Casuarius bennetti), presented by Commodore Sir William Wiseman, Bart., R.N., along with other valuable birds on the 11th inst. Mr. Sclater took this opportunity of also calling attention to the young Cassowary (Casuarius galeatus) hatched in the Gardens on the 22nd of June, 1866, which was still in good health and promised to make a fine bird. This was believed to be the only instance of the successful reproduction of this bird that had ever taken place in Europe. Prof. Newton communicated a notice of a picture which he supposed to represent the Didine Bird (Didus, sp.) of the island of |