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Show 388 ON PTILONORHYNCHUS HOLOSERICEUS. [June 19, except the lateral outer streak, which remains pure yellowish. and body 30| centim. ; tail 58 millim. 14. DENDROPHIS PUNCTULATUS (Gray). 15. CHRYSOPELEA RHODOPLEURON (Reinw.). BATRACHIA. 16. RANA PAPUA, Less. 17. HYLA DOLICHOPSIS (Cope). June 19, 1883. Prof. 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 M a y 1883:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of M a y was 123, of which 48 were by presentation, 29 by purchase, 7 by birth, 1 by exchange, and 38 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 134. The most noticeable additions during the month of M a y were as follows:- 1. A hen Cabot's Tragopan (Ceriornis caboti), from South-west China, purchased M a y 18th, being the first example of the female of this fine Pheasant which we have received. 2. Four Pygmy Hogs (Porcula salvania), born in the Gardens, May 23. These diminutive Pigs, of which I exhibit a drawing of the natural size (Plate XLIII.), did not, unfortunately, survive their birth; but the fact of the species having bred in captivity is of great interest, and we may hope for better success on a future occasion, as although we have lost one of our specimens, which will be the subject of Dr. Garson's paper to-night, the others are alive aud well. 3. A fine example of the Surucucu or Bush-master Snake of South America (Lachesis mutus), presented by Henry Y. Barkley, Esq., of Pernambuco, on the 22nd of May. The following extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by M r . Albert A. C. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., dated Melbourne, April 18th, in which attention was called to a curious fact in connexion with the Satin Bower-bird (Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus):- " I have frequently noticed in the hill-country east of Melbourne large flocks of the Satin Bower-bird, sometimes over a hundred together, but have hardly ever seen more than three or four black individuals, the rest being green ; and it has always seemed singular to m e that there should be such a small proportion of adult males. " About eight years ago I caged a number of these interesting birds, eight or ten green and two black. The black birds died |