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Show February 3, 1891. mi o Bage Tbe Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in January 1891 121 Dr. Emm Pasha, C.M.Z.S., Letter from, announcing tbe despatch to the Society of a Collection of Birds 122 Mr. J. W. Willis-Bund, F.Z.S., Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of the Collared Petrel ((Estrelata torquata) shot off the Welsh coast of Cardigan Bay 122 1. On the Question of Saurognathism of the Pici, and other Osteological Notes upon that Group. By R. W . SHUFELDT, C.M.Z.S. &c 122 2. Descriptions of two new Species of Parrots of the Genus Platycercus. By T. SALVADORI, C.M.Z.S. (Plate XII.) 129 3. On a second Collection of Birds from the Province of Tarapaca, Northern Chili. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate XIII.) 181 4. Qn the Pouch and Brain of the Male Thylacine. By FRANK E. BEDDARD, M.A., Prosector to the Society , 138 February 17, 1891. Mr. Edward Gerrard, Jr. Exhibition of a large head of a Koodoo Antelope (Strepsiceros kudu) 145 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some abnormal specimens of Clausilia rugosa 145 Mr. Boulenger. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a renewed left pectoral limb of a Protopterus annectens 147 Mr. Boulenger. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, young specimens and eggs of a South- African Siluroid Fish (Galeichthys feliceps) 148 1. On the Probable Existence of a Jacobson's Organ among the Crocodilia ; with Observations upon the Skeleton of that Organ in tbe Mammalia, and upon tbe Basi-Mandi-bular Elements in tbe Vertebrata. By G. B. H O W E S , F.Z.S., F.L.S., Assistant Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, London. (Plate XIV.) 148 2. On the Variation and Development of the Leporine Sternum. By R. H. BURNE, B.A. Oxon., F.Z.S 159 3 On the Muscicapine Genus Chasiempis, with a Description of a new Species. By SCOTT B. W I L S O N , F.Z.S 164 4. Description of a new Species of the Genus Himatione from the Sandwich Islands. By SCOTT B. W I L S O N , F.Z.S 166 5 On British Remains of Homceosaurus, with Remarks on the Classification of the Rhynchocephalia. By G. A. B O U L E N G E R 167 6 Preliminary Account of an Earthworm from West Africa referable to a new Genus. By F R A N K E. B E D D A R D , M.A., F.R.S.E., Prosector to the Society 172 7 On a Functional Ductus Botalli in Nycticorax violaceus and Dafila spinicauda. By FRANK FINN, B.A., late Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford. (Communicated by F. E. BEDDARD, F.Z.S., Prosector to the Society.) 176 |