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Show 218 MR. D'ALBERTIS ON BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. [Mar. 4, Fig. 42. Columbella (Atilia) niveomar-ginata, p. 208. 43. (Zafra) subvitrea, p. 209. 44^446. (Amycla) varians, p. 210. 45,45a. Nassa (Zeuxis) siquijorensis, p. 210. 46. {Hima) acutidendata, p. 212. 47. ( ) luteola, p. 212. 48. Coralliophila jeffreysii, p. 213. Fig. 49. Mitra (Costellaria) fusco-apicata, p. 214. _ ( ) collinsoni, p. 215. ( ) gotoensis, p. 215. 50. 51. 52. 53, 53a. 54. 55 • (Pusia) cemula, p. 215. ( ) inermis, p. 216. Cancellaria japonica, p. 216. . Oliva (Olivella spreta). p. 216. 56. Ancillaria inornata, p. 217. March 4, 1879. Prof. W . H. Flower, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary made the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during February 1879 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February was 47, of which 3 were by birth, 20 bv presentation, 18 by purchase, 4 were received in exchange, and 2 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 83. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A Purple-crested Touracou (Corythaix porphyreolopha), presented bv the Rev. J. A. Gould, F.Z.S., February 4. On his return from Natal Mr. Gould was kind enough to bring us the first example of this beautiful Touracou which has been received alive by the Society. The bird was obtained from a person on board the Zanzibar mail-steamer, and is doubtless from Mozambique, or from some part of the East-African coast. 2. A very beautiful Iguanoid Lizard (kindly determined by Dr. Gunther as Crotophytus wislezeni, Baird and Girard) from New Mexico, presented by Lieut.-Col. Ralph Vivian, F.Z.S., on the 18th February, which has unfortunately died since its receipt by the Society. Mr. Sclater laid before the Meeting examples of two rare Fruit- Pigeons (Carpophaga van-wicki, Cassin, and C. rhodinolcema, Scl.), and pointed out, in reference to some recent remarks by Dr. Finsch on these birds (antea, p. 13), that though nearly allied, they were by no means conspecific, C. rhodinolcema being altogether smaller i size, and having a dark-green back Mr. Sclater had no doubt that the bird obtained by Mr. Hiibner in the Duke-of-York group would turn out to be C. vanwycki, not C. rhodinolcema. Mr. L. M. D'Albertis, C.M.Z.S., exhibited some new and rare birds from his recent expedition up the Fly River, N e w Guinea, amongst which were a series of Paradise-birds, apparently intermediate between Paradisea apoda and P. raggiana, and examples of Cyclopsittacus cervicalis, Megacrex inepta, Cinclosoma ajax, and other little-known species. - |