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Show 1871.] VISCOUNT WALDEN ON A NEW POLIHIERAX. 627 10 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removal, was 124. The most noticeable of the additions were :- 1. A Javan Fish-Owl (Ketupa javensis, Less.), purchased September 8th, being the first example of any species of this well-marked genus of Owls obtained by the Society. 2. A young specimen of the South-American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus igni-palliatus), received September 19th by one of the Brazilian Mail-steamers from Buenos Ayres, and believed to have been forwarded to the Society by our energetic correspondent Mr. George Wilks of Buenos Ayres. 3. A n Iguana, presented September 19th by Mr. J. B. Rowe. Mr. Rowe obtained this animal from a seaman, who stated that he had brought it from the Chincha Islands. But Dr. Giinther, who has examined it, refers it to Metopoceros cornutus, Wagler, of St. Domingo. 4. A young Cassowary, obtained by exchange from the Zoological Society of Amsterdam, September 20th. This bird, which is stated to have been captured by a missionary resident at Munsinam, near Havre Dorey, on the north-west extremity of the Bay of Geelvink, N ew Guinea, in the summer of 1869, appears to m e to be identical with the bird described by Rosenberg as Casuarius kaupi (J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 44). Dr. Schlegel has referred this species to the young of C. uniappendiculatus (see P. Z. S. 1866, p. 168). But I can hardly believe our bird to be the same as the latter species, there being no traces at present of any throat-wattle at all, and the size being so much smaller. Our bird seems to belong to a species closely allied to C. bennetti, but quite distinct. 5. A young female Ibex from the Island of Crete, presented to the Society September 30th by T. B. Sandwith, Esq., H.B.M. Consul for that island. Blasius refers the Cretan Ibex to Capra beden, under which name I have provisionally entered our specimen in the Register. It is, however, apparently quite different from the female Ibex from Crete received in 1862, which reared a numerous hybrid progeny in the Gardens ; and I am not yet certain as to its correct specific name *. Mr. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of the Viscount Walden, President of the Society, skins of both sexes of a new and most interesting Falconine bird of the genus Polihierax, which had been recently obtained in the vicinity of Tongoo, in Upper Burmah, and transmitted to Lord Walden by Major Lloyd. In this species, which Lord Walden was intending to describe and figure under the name Polihierax insignis, the whole of the back of the head in the female sex, as well as the upper back, was of a deep chestnut, being in the male grey striated with black. In both sexes the white plumage below was marked on the neck and breast with black shaft-stripes. The tail was black, broadly barred with white, * In 1868 Mr. Blyth exhibited a head and horns of this Ibex at a Meeting of this Society, but did not give any name to the species (see P. Z. S. 1868, p. 262). |