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Show 754 MR. H. SAUNDERS ON STERNA ALEUTICA. [Nov. 20, ceux du Caprimulgus europceus; mais ils sont beaucoup plus petits, a maculature composee generalement de taches petites et nombreuses, parmi lesquelles il y a souvent des stries. Les taches pales sont en general beaucoup plus nombreuses que celles de la gamme super-ficielle. Dimensions: 26, 19*2; 26*2, 20 2; 26*2, 19*5; 27*2,20; 28*2, 20*3; 28*2, 19*5 millim. COLUMBULA CRUZIANA (Knip et Prev.). Les ceufs d'une ponte presentent les dimensions suivantes : 23, 17 ; 23, 18*8 millim. November 20, 1877. Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., V.P., in tbe Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October 1877- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October was 93, of which 37 were by presentation, 29 by purchase, 1 by exchange, 9 by birth, and 17 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 127. The most noticeable additions during the month of October were as follows :- 1. A Layard's Flying Squirrel (Sciuropterus layardi1), presented by Sir Charles Peter Layard, October 8th. This is the first example of this elegant little Ceylonese animal that has reached our collection. 2. A pair of East-African Buffalos (Bubalus cequinoctialis), purchased 27th October. This is the animal lately described in our ' Proceedings' by Sir Victor Brooke (P. Z. S. 1875, p. 457), from a specimen living in the Zoological Gardens at Berlin, and there first well distinguished by him from the allied South-African species (Bubalus cafer), of which we have likewise living examples. Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a skin of the rare Aleutian Tern (Sterna aleutica), from Alaska, and made some remarks on its intermediate position between the true Terns (Sterna) and the Sooty Terns (Onychoprion). The following papers were read :- 1 Sciuropterus layardi, Kelaart, ' Prodromus Fauna Zeylanicse,' p. 56; Tennent's Ceylon, vol. i. p. 148. |