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Show 394 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS [Nov. 5, 2. A Pretre's Amazon (Chrysotis preetrii), purchased July 23rd also new to the Collection. The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of August were 117 ; of these 63 were acquired by presentation, 6 by purchase, 6 by birth, 1 by exchange, and 41 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals was 96. The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of September were 84 ; of these 34 were acquired by presentation, 22 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 10 were bred in the Gardens, and i4 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals was 78. Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on specimens of Virgularia mirabilis, dredged up by the Hon. A. E. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., in Loch Craigrush ; also two young living specimens of Palinurus vulgaris, received from Mr. Spencer of Guernsey, and a fresh specimen of Galathea strigosa, also received from Mr. Spencer. The mode of stridulating of the Palinurus was observable in the specimens. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a hybrid Wagtail, between Motacilla melanope and M. lugubris, one of three bred some years ago in Mr. T. J. Monk's aviary at Lewes in Sussex (being the same as those mentioned in the 'Zoologist' for 1885, p. 24), and made some remarks on the probability of various Wagtails, closely allied, interbreeding in a wild state. Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on some specimens illustrative of variations in the plumage of the Common Partridge (Perdix cinerea). A communication was read from the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing on Urothoe, a genus of Amphipodous Crustaceans, and on a new allied genus, proposed to be called Vrothoides, of which Urothoe lachneessa, Stebbing, was the type. This Memoir will be printed in the Society's ' Transactions.' The following papers were read :- 1. List of Birds collected by Mr. Ramage in St. Lucia, West Indies. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Eeceived July 25,1889.] The series of birds collected in St. Lucia by Mr. George A. Ramage, the naturalist employed by the joint Committee of the Royal Society and the British Association for the investigation of |
