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Show 1891.] PROF. E. C. STIRLING ON NOTORYCTES TYPHLOPS. 327 been produced by a male Lophophorus impeyanus and a female Euplocamus albocristatus. The Menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes was fortunate in still having a male example of the Black African Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis), received about ten years ago. From the Antwerp Gardens Mr. Sclater had succeeded in obtaining a few interesting birds for the Society's collection. Amongst these were two small Hornbills (Toccus erythrorhynchus) and two African Spoonbills (Platalea alba), the latter being new to the Society's series. In the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam two interesting Antelopes had lately been received from the Congo : these were a female of Tragelaphus gratus and a male Cephalophus dorsalis. The colony of wild Herons adjoining the large covered aviary in which the Night-Herons bred (see P. Z. S. 1889, p. 219) was still flourishing and consisted this year of twenty-eight pairs. The Gardens of the Royal Zoological Society of Amsterdam (since the death of the late Mr. Westerman under the direction of Dr. C. Kerbert) had been next visited and many objects of interest had been noted. Amongst these were a pair of the Elk (dices machlis), born in the Gardens on the 13th of J une, 1890, a pair of the Bantang Ox of the Sunda Island (Bos banteng), and a female example of the Sassabey Antelope (Damalis lunata). The herd of the graceful Antelope (Tragelaphus gratus) (see above p. 213) now consisted of a male, two females, and two young ones lately bom. In the small Zoological Garden at the Hague, Mr. Sclater had noticed an example of a beautiful species of Ground-Pigeon, Phlegoznas tristigmata, (see Ibis, 1865, pi. ix.), of Celebes, which he had never seen before alive. A drawing, sent to England by Professor E. C. Stirling of the University of Adelaide, M.D. and a Corresponding Member of the Society, was exhibited. This, being the first received in Europe, represented the remarkable Australian mammal which that gentleman had now called Notoryctes typhlops, having described it without a name in 'Nature' (vol. xxxviii. p. 588) of the 18th of October, 1888, in the following terms :- "The total length is 13 cm., inclusive of the tail, which is 2 cm. long. The head, relatively shorter than in Chrysochloris, has a rounded muzzle, the dorsal surface of which is covered by a horny shield. Nostrils transversely slit-like. No eyes visible, the skin passing uninterruptedly over the ocular region ; but on reflecting the skin on one side of the face a small circular pigment-spot is visible in the position of the eye. No apparent bony orbit. Tongue fleshy, broad at the base, and tapering to a blunt point. No external ears, but the ear-openings distinct, 1 m m . wide, and covered over with fur. "The fore limbs are short, resembling somewhat those of a Mole ; but the manus is folded, so that the large nails of the fourth and fifth digits only are visible in the natural position of the limbs. Of these nails the fourth is 15 mm. long and of a uniform width of |