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Show 586 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CHAUNA CHAVARIA. [Dec. 3, December 3, 1889. 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 November 1889 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November was 83, of which 30 were by presentation, 3 by birth, 38 by purchase, 5 by exchange, and 7 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 86. The following extract was read from a letter received by the Secretary from the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk, C.M.Z.S., dated Cape Town, Sept. 24, 1889:- "From time to time I have read with interest that which has appeared in the Society's ' Proceedings' concerning Bipalium kewense1. Last year I found about my place at Rondebosch several specimens apparently of this creature, some of which I gave to tbe Museum. This winter I have found other specimens, some of which were very fine ones. 1 placed in a glass jar some earth and living moss and added water. In this I have, during the last six months, kept my specimens of Bipalium. I have covered the top of the jar with fine wire gauze, and placed it on the floor in a dark corner of a room under the folds of a window curtain. Some of the large specimens of Bipalium have disappeared, but I find that there are in the jar several young ones in a healthy state, which glide over the sides of the jar, where I see them during the very early hours of the morning. Those which I placed in the jar have either bred or multiplied by division." Mr. Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S., exhibited a small collection of Birds selected from a series obtained during the present year by Mr. Hoist on the Bonin Islands. Amongst them were specimens of the following species :- Hapalopteron familiar e. Fringilla kittlitzi, sp. nov. Cettia diphone. Hypsipetes squamiceps. Carpophaga versicolor. OSstrelata hypoleuca. Nycticorax crassirostris. Mr. Seebohm also exhibited a pair of Merula celcenops from Fatsirio Island. Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of the egg of the Crested Screamer (Chauna chavaria), from the collection of Mr. J. J. 1 See P. Z. S. 1886, p. 166 ; 1887, p. 548 ; 1889, p. 5. |
