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Show 618 MR. P. CHALMERS MITCHELL ON THE [June 16, Gnu, I left Msongozi's on the Loangwa R. and struck down the valley with the object of making Kambombo's. But I had only gone one day's journey to Mwan-kanka, when we were fired on by a colony of slave-traders settled there under a half-bred Arab, and further progress was quite out of the question." Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks on a fine shed antler of the Circassian Red Deer (Cervus moral), which had been shipped with a cargo of bones and horns from Tiflis, on the Black Sea. The antler had 9 well-developed points, weight 9 lbs. 2 oz., its length of beam 41 inches, length of brow-tine 18 inches. Mr. Holding also exhibited, on behalf of W . Burton, Esq.,F.Z.S., an abnormal pair of horns of the Wild Goat from the Caucasus, having a curious inward spiral form (see figure). Abnormal horns of Wild Goat from the Caucasus. The following papers were read :- 1. A Contribution to the Anatomy of the Hoatzin {Opisthocomus cristatus). By P. C H A L M E R S MITCHELL, MA., F.Z.S. [Eeceived June 2, 1896.] The material upon which this communication is based consistsi several specimens of the Hoatzin, preserved in spirit, and kindly given me by Mr. F. V. McConnel, whom my friend Mr. t.. w. Headley told that they would be of service to me. I am mdeDtea to the 'Society and to its Prosector for the continued use ot tne |