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LONDON Zoological Society, January 2.—Prof. Newton, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.—Prof. Newton exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of a variety of the guillemot (Alca troile) with yellow bill and legs, which had been lately shot by Mr. J. M. Pike on the south coast of England.—Prof. Garrod, F.R.S., read a paper on the osteology and visceral anatomy of the Ruminantia, in which many facts concerning the anatomy of the Cervidæ and the Cavicornia were brought forward, especially with reference to the shape of the liver and the structure of the generative organs in these animals. Among the most important of these was the observation that the uterine mucous membrane of the musk-deer (Moschus moschiferus) presents no indications of the presence of cotyledons, the contrary being the case in all other ruminants, Prof. Garrod likewise made a suggestion as to a proposed method of expressing the relations of species by means of formulæ.—A paper by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin was read containing the descriptions of eight new species of South American birds, namely (l), Euphonia finschi; (2), Pheuticus crissalis;. (3), Octhaca leucometopa; (4), Octhaca arenacea; (5), Chloronerpes dignus; (6), Celeus subflavus; (7), Chamæpelia buckleyi; (8), Crax erythrognatha.—Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read a paper on some new species of warblers from Madagascar, which had bieen recently added to the collection in the British Museurn, and were proposed to be called Apalis cerviniventris, Bæocerca flaviventris, and Dromæocercus brunneus, the last-named being a new genus, from Madagascar.—A communication was read from Mr. G. S. Brady, containing notes on fresh-water mites which had been obtained from lakes and ponds in England and Ireland.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 15, 247–248 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015247a0
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