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Show CONTENTS (continued). December 1, 1896 (continued). Page 2. Descriptions of new Fishes from the Upper Shire River, British Central Africa, collected by Dr. Percy Rendall, and presented to the British Museum by Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. (Plate XLVII.) 915 3. On tbe Lizards of the Genus Eremias, Section Boulengeria. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. 920 4. On an apparently New Deer from North China; in the Menagerie of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. By R. LYDEKKER, B.A., F.R.S., &c (Plates XLVIII. 4 XLIX.) 930 5. On the Habits of a Cuckoo in the Gilbert Islands. By ALFRED J. NORTH, C.M.Z.S., Ornithologist to tbe Australian Museum, Sydney , 934 6. On the Development and the Species of the Crustaceans of the Genus Sergestes.. By - Dr. H. J. HANSEN (Copenhagen) ,, 926 7. On the General Results of a Zoological Expedition to Madagascar in 1894-96. By C. I. FORSYTH MAJOR , 971 December 15, 1896, The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in November, Mr. Sclater. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, two volumes of original water-colour drawings by Wolf and Waterhouse Hawkins, from tbe Knowsley Library 981 Mr. W. Bateson. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, three Pigeons showing webbing between the toes 989 Prof. Newton, F.R.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the type specimen of Heterorhynchus olivaceus 9P0 Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, an actinograph of a " Partridge 991 1. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Plankton of the Faeroe Channel.-No. I. G. HERBERT FOWLER, B.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Zoology, University College, London. (Plate L.) , .*...' 991 2. On the Occurrence of a Pair of Supernumerary Bones in the Skull of a Lemur Peculiarity in the Skull of a young Orang. By ROBERT O. CUNNINGHAM, M.D., F.L.S., F.G.S., C.M.Z.S., Professor of Natural History, Queen's College, Belfast 996 3. Description d'un nouveaii Couroucou africain. Par le Dr. ALPH, DUBOIS, Conservateur au Musee royal d'hist, nat. de Belgique, C.M.Z.S 999 4. On Lysechinus, a new Genus of Fossil Echinoderms from the Tyrolese Trias. By J. W . GREGORY, D.SC, F.G.S., Assistant in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). (Plate LI.) .. 1000 5. On some new and little-known Spiders (Araneidca). By the Rev. O. PICKARD CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., 4c. (Plate LII.) 1006 6. On the Genera of Rodents : an Attempt to bring up to Date the current Arrangement of the Order. By OLDFIELD THOMAS, F.Z.S 1012 7. On the Classification of the Palteozoic Echinoderms of the Group Ophiuroidea. J. W . GREGORY, D.Sc, F.Z.S. 1028 Appendix : List of Additions to the Society's Menagerie during the Fear 1896 1045 Index • 1067 Titlepage • • i List of Contributors _• iii List of Plates • • xvii List of Woodcuts * • • - xix List of New Generic Terms xxiii |