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Show 370 DR. B. C A. WINDLE AND MR. F. G. PARSONS ON THE [Apr. 6, EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XXV. Crania of Potamochcerus, side view. £ natural size. Fig. 1. Potamochosrus chceropotamus dcemonis, $ . B.M. 92.4.24.4. 2. P. larvatus, $. From Ampitambe forest (Madagascar).' 3. P. johnstoni, £. Type. B.M. 91.5.9.5. 4. P. charopotamus nyasce, o*. B.M. 94.3.18.9. PLATE XXVI. Crania of Potamochcerus, upper view. \ natural size. Fig. 1. Potamocha>rus johnstoni, O. • Type. B.M. 91.5.9.5. 2. P. larvatus, §. (Ampitambe, Madagascar.) 3. P. chceropotamus dcemonis, £. B.M. 92.4.24.4. 4. P. chceropotamus nyasce, J. B.M. 94.3.18.9. April 6, 1897. W. T. BLANFORD, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1897 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 152, of which 44 were by presentation, 2 by birth, 42 by purchase, 30 were received in exchange, and 34 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals was 106. Amongst the additions attention may be called to two examples of the Indian Pigmy Goose (Nettopus coromandelianus), presented by Frank Finn, Esq., B.A., F.Z.S., of Calcutta, on March 22nd. Many attempts have previously been made to introduce this bird into Europe, but without success ; and these are the first specimens that have reached the Society's Gardens alive. The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. A. J. Lawford Jones, a curious cinnamon-coloured variety of the Blackbird (Turdus merula), which had been captured near Dorking, Surrey. The following papers were read:- 1. On the Myology of the Terrestrial Carnivora.-Part I. Muscles of the Head, Neck, and Fore-Limb. By B. C. A. W I N D L E , M.A., M.D., D.Sc, Professor of Anatomy at Mason College, Birmingham, and F. G. PARSONS, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital. [Received February 11, 1897.] During the last four or five years a considerable number of bodies of carnivorous animals have come into our possession, partly |