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Show 1891.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 121 of the inferior dental nerve and associated blood-vessels which are normally found in this situation. The glands have not a smooth surface such as the figures given would indicate, but are divided into well-defined lobules, which in H. suspectum converge and partly fuse as they pass upwards and forwards from lower border to the anterior extremity. Behind the poison-glands are a few small mucous glands. "When dissecting the fresh specimen of Heloderma under water, the slightest pressure on the poison-gland caused a milky fluid to escape from the gland-openings referred to above ; this fluid readily diffused itself in the water, whereas the mucus from the other glands hung about as more transparent ropy clouds. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. Fig. 1. Dissection of the ventral surface of the head and neck of H. suspectum. G. Left poison-gland; the right gland has been raised to show the branches of the inferior dental nerve and blood-vessels. T. Left lobe of thyroid gland. 2. Inner surface of left poison-gland of H. horridum. 3. Diagrammatic section of lower jaw and poison-gland. J. Jaw ; G. Gland; D. Its duct; S. Skin. 4. Left kidney of H. horridum. 5. Left urogenital system of H. suspectum. K". Kidney; B. Bladder; TJ. Ureter; T. Testis; V.D. Vas deferens; E. Eectum; E.M. Eectal muscles; C. Cloaca ; D.A.G. Dorsal anal gland; P. Penis; C.M.P. Constrictor muscle of penis ; E.M.P. Eetractor muscle of penis; S. Skin. February 3, 1891. Prof. Flower, C.B., 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 January 1891 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January was 76, of which 62 were by presentation, 4 by exchange, 4 by purchase, 1 by birth, and 5 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 71. Amongst the additions special attention m a y be called t o :- A Yellow-crowned Penguin (Eudyptes antipodum), from New- Zealand, presented by Sir Henry Peek, Bart., F.Z.S. This is a scarce species (cf. Buller, B. N e w Zealand, pi. xlvi. p. 294), and we have never received a specimen of it before. Mr. Larkworthy, who procured this Penguin for Sir Henry Peek, writes as follows concerning its capture :-" There is an Oyster Fishery established at the Bluff Harbour, Southland, N. Z., and the operations of the fishermen are carried out in the straits between the Middle Island and Stewart's Island. This bird and others, six in all, were captured by the crew of one of the oyster-boats, in one of the small bays in Stewart's Island, and sent thence to Port Chalmers, Otago, to wait for a steamer." |