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Show LIST OF CONTENTS. PART I.-1877. January 2, 1877. J Page The Secretary. Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in December 1876 .. 1 Prof. Newton. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a variety of the Guillemot (Alca troile).. 1. Notes on the Visceral Anatomy and Osteology of the Ruminants, with a Suggestion regarding a Method of expressing the Relation of Species by means of Formulae. By A. H. GARROD, M.A., Prosector to tbe Society 2 2. Descriptions of eight new Species of South-American Birds. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.R.S. (Plate I.) 18 3. On new Species of Warblers in tbe Collection of tbe British Museum. By R. B O W D L ER SHARPE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c, Senior Assistant, Zoological Department, British Museum (Plate II.) 22 4. Notes on British Freshwater Mites. By G E O R G E STEWARDSON BRADY, M.D., F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., Professor of Natural History in the College of Physical Science, Newcastle-on- Tyne. (Plates III. & IV.) 24 January 16, 1877. Mr. Sclater. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a collection of Mammals, Birds, and Insects, formed by the Rev. George Brown, C.M.Z.S., in Duke-of-YTork Island 28 Mr. G. Krefft, C.M.Z.S. Letter from, concerning a young example of Casuarius australis living in Sydney 28 1. O n the Birds of the North Polar Basin. By Capt. H. W . FEILDEN, C.M.Z.S 28 2. Notes on some of the smaller Mammals of tbe Argentine Republic. By H E N R Y DURNFORD 32 3. Note on the Solid-hoofed Pigs in the Society's Collection. By A. H. G A R R O D , F.R.S., Prosector to the Society 33 4 Description of a new Species of Helix from South Australia. By G E O R G E F R E N C H ANGAS, C.M.Z.S 33 5. Descriptions of two Genera and twenty Species of Marine Shells from New South Wales. By G E O R G E F R E N C H ANGAS, C.M.Z.S., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., &c. (Plate V.) 34 6. Notes on Eliomys melanurus and on some other Rodents of Palestine By H. B TRISTRAM, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S. (Plate VI.) 40 February 6, 1877. The Secretary. Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in January 1877 42 Mr. Howard Saunders. Exhibition of a Specimen of the Panay Sooty Tern (Sterna anmstheta) obtained on the British coast \% 43 Mr. Sclater. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the original and unique specimen of Manucodia comrii ' .„ 1. On Phylloscopus borealis and its Occurrence in Norway. By R O B E R T COLLETT, C M Z S Conservator of the Zoological Museum of the University of Christiania, &c. 40 Contents continued on vaae 3 of "71'fsi -»-. *, |