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Show 3 2 4 MR. W. R. OGILVIE GRANT ON BIRDS FROM JAPAN. [Nov. 28, portion of tlie skull from another case whose history is unknown. ‘ Domain' was stated to be five years old in 1903, so that he was seven years of age when the photographs were taken. The horns are about inch in length, the left slightly larger than the right. There can be 110 doubt that they are outgrowths of the frontal bone. They are covered by normal skin and hair. Mr. Frank Slade, F.Z.S., showed three photographs of the Sea-Anemone (Anemonici sulcata), which had been taken from life in the Horniman Museum at Forest Hill, in the process of division. The first photograph showed the Anemone at rest after having made the initial tear in the body-wall. The second showTed the animal, two days later, straining to increase the tear, whilst the third, taken after an interval of sixteen days, showed the division completed. _______ Mr. Douglas English exhibited and made remarks upon a living albino Field-Vole (Microtus agrestis) which had been captured last July in Wales. Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited a living Lizard, Lacerta muralis, from Brozzi, province Florence, which he had received from Dr. A. Banchi, through the mediation of Dr. J. de Bedriaga, C.M.Z.S. The lizard belonged to the typical form of the Wall- Lizard, but was remarkable for its black coloration, above and below. Melanistic forms of the Wall-Lizard were well known on -small islands in the Mediterranean, but, so far as Mr. Boulenger was aware, 110 black specimen had ever been recorded from the mainland. The scales across the body numbered 58 and the lamellar scales under the fourth toe 25 in the specimen exhibited ; these two numbers being sufficient to distinguish the Brozzi lizard from the melanistic insulars previously described. Capt. Albert Pam, F.Z.S., made some remarks 011 a living specimen of the Violet-cheeked Humming-bird (Petasojriiora iolota) which he had recently brought home from Venezuela and presented to the Society's Menagerie. He also gave a general account of the habits of these birds, as observed by him, in a wild And captive state, and notes 011 their management and feeding while in confinement. Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, F.Z.S., sent for exhibition a named set of the Birds collected in Japan by Mr. M. P. Anderson in connection with the Duke of Bedford's Exploration in Eastern Asia. No new species wTere discovered, but several of the specimens were of special interest as illustrating stages of plumage not represented in tlie British Museum. |