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32 December 5, 1876.—Dr. Vice-President, in the chair.

The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November, and called particular attention to four Brazilian Cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), purchased, and a Hooded Crane (Grus monachus), received on deposit.

A letter was read from Count T. Salvadori, announcing that a new species of Paradise-bird of the genus Drepanornis, had been discovered near the most inland point of Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.

A communication was read from Mr. Andrew Anderson, containing some corrections of and additions to previous papers on the "Raptorial Birds of North-Western India."

Mr. Francis Day read a paper on the fishes collected by the Yarkand Mission, in 1873, to which the late Dr. Stoliczka was attached as naturalist. The paper gave an outline sketch of the Fresh-water Fishes of Hindostan, Afghanistan, Western Turkestan, Yarkand, Tibet, and Cashmere. The author showed that the principal fishes of Yarkand belong to a local group of Carps, termed "Hill Barbels, or Schizothoracinæ," by M'Clelland; that this group is almost restricted to cold and elevated regions, spreading to the most eastern portion of Western Turkestan, Afghanistan, and along the slopes of the Himalayas to China; and that these forms are entirely distinct from the Carps of the plains to the south of the Himalayas.

A communication was read from Mr. Martin Jacoby, giving descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous Coleoptera.

A communication was read from Dr. A. Günther, containing the description of a new species of Lizard from Asia Minor, which he proposed to name Zootoca Danfordi, after Mr. C.G. Danford, its discoverer.

Dr. Günther communicated a paper by Mr. W. Ferguson, of Colombo, containing the description of a new species of Snake of the genus Aspidura from Ceylon, for which the name of A. Guentheri was proposed.—P.L. Sclater.

November 1, 1876.—Professor M.A., President, in the chair.

The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:—'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 1876, parts ii. and iii.; by the Society. 'The Zoologist' and 'Newman's Entomologist' for November; by the Representatives of the late Edward Newman. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for November; by the Editors. 'The Naturalist; Journal of the West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society,' no. xvi.; by the Editor. 'Nature,' nos. 362–365; by the Publishers.