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Show 472 MR. SCLATER O N A PENGTJIN'S SKIN. [May 18, hand, free intercentra appear to be the rule. I have found one Fig. 4. Toceus erythrorhynchus. Caudal vertebra?. 1, lateral view; 2, ventral view. P, pelvis; b, free intercentrum. or two of considerable size. In the Passeres I have never yet met with these structures. May 18, 1897. Prof. G. B. HOWES, F.Z.S., in the Chair. Mr. Sclater exhibited a plan of the new Zoological Garden attached to the " Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethno-graphia " at Para, in Brazil, of which Dr. Emil Goeldi, C.M.Z.S., was Director ; and called attention to the description of it and its contents recently published in the ' Zoologische Garten' (Jahrg. xxxviii. No. 4, April 1897), by Herr Meerwarth, Assistant in the Para Museum. Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of a Penguin received by him in exchange from the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris as an example of Mlcrodyptes serresianus (Oust.), and read the following note from Mr. Ogilvie-Grant on the subject:- " I have carefully examined the specimen of so-called Mlcrodyptes serresianus, and find it is without any doubt the young of Eudyptes chrysocome (Forst.). The shape of the bill and soft downy grey feathers of the throat point at once to its being an immature bird. In the Bothschild Museum at Tring there is a fine series of young E. chrysocome in different stages, and with some of these M. serresianus is identical." |