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Show 1882.] MR. SCLATER ON THE WORD " LIPOTYPE." 311 March 21, 1882. Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D. F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1882:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February was 59, of which 22 were by presentation, 26 by purchase, 3 by birth, 2 were received in exchange, and 6 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 89. The most noticeable additions during the month of February were as follows :- 1. Four Warty-faced Honey-eaters (Xanthomyza phrygia), and 2. Two Musk-Ducks (Biziura lobata), purchased February 8th. Both these Australian species are new to the Society's Collection ; and, so far as I know, examples of them have not been previously brought alive to Europe. 3. A young Tapir, born in the Gardens February 12th, and thriving well, is the produce of our male Tapirus roulini (received M a y 25th, 1878) and the large female Tapirus americanus from Paraguay, received January 16th, 1873. It is the first of the genus bred in the Society's Gardens. 4. A female Mule Deer (Cervus macrotis) from the Western United States, presented by Dr. J. D. Caton, C.M.Z.S., and received February 15th. Thanks to Dr. Caton's kind exertions we have now a fine pair (besides an odd male) of this beautiful Deer, and shall, I trust, succeed in breeding them. The female just received is in excellent health and very tame. Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a mummified bird forwarded by Mr. George Holland of Swansea, and received by him from an island on the coast of Peru, whence it was brought home by the master of the ship 'Nero.' It was evidently a young Gannet, and most probably referable to Sula fiber, a species common on the South-Pacific and South-Atlantic coasts. The island in question appeared to be a great breeding-haunt of sea-fowl; and the deposit of guano there was very considerable. The bird was found in a sitting posture completely buried in the guano at a great depth. It had accordingly been so well preserved as to be easily recognizable, although it must have been buried for some considerable time. Three eggs exhibited, in much the same condition, were obtained at the same time and place. One was probably the egg of a Gull, the others those of a Tern. Mr. Sclater stated that in the course of some lectures lately given at the Royal Institution on the geographical distribution of animals, he had found it convenient to coin a term for the designation of a |