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LONDON Zoological Society, June 19.—E. W. H. Holdsworth, F.Z.S., vice-president, in the chair.-The secretary read a letter addressed to him by Mr. J. M. Comely, announcing that his female Hydropetes inermis had just produced three young ones.— Mr. J. E. Harting, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on a variety of the common Snipe, intermediate between the usual form of that species and the so-called Sabine's Snipe.—Mr. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a curiously malformed sternum of the Tawny Owl.—Mr. John Murray, Naturalist to the Challenger Expedition, exhibited and made remarks on a series of sharks' teeth, whales' ear-bones, and other specimens dredged up at great depths during the Challenger Expedition.—Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., read the first of a series of reports on the collection of birds made during the voyage of H.M. S. Challenger, containing general remarks on the collection, which was stated to consist of about 679 skins of terrestrial and 198 of oceanic birds, besides a considerable series of specimens in salt and in spirit, and a collection of eggs, principally of the oceanic species.—A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., containing a report on the collection of birds made during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger in the Philippine Islands. Amongst them were examples of seven species new to science.—Mr. P. L. Sclater read a paper giving a description of the birds collected at the Admiralty Islands during the visit of the Chalhnger expedition to that place. Amongst these were examples of six species hitherto unknown to naturalists.—A communication was read from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, C.M.Z.S., on some new species of Araneidea, with characters of two new genera and some remarks on the families Podopthalmides and Dinopides.—A note was read by Mr. J. H. Gurney on the breeding of the Polish swan in captivity, and on the stages of plumage of the young birds. —A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, in which he gave a complete description of the Lepidopterous fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, so far as is yet known.—A communication was read from Mr. Herbert Druce, F.Z.S., containing a revision of the Lepidopterous genus Paphia, with descriptions of twenty-one new species.—A communication was read from Mr. E. J. Miers, F.ZS., containing the description of a collection of Crustacea (Decapoda and Isopoda), chiefly from South America, with descriptions of new genera and species.—Mr. A. H. Garrod read a description of the brain of the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Cerator-hinus mmatrtnsis).—A paper by Mr. A. D. Bartiett, contained the description of a new Guinea Fowl, from Mombassa, in Eastern Africa, based on a specimen brought home by Mr. Gerald Waller, for which the name Numida ellioti was proposed.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 16, 219–220 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016219a0
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