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Show 1871.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 545 to the coast at Musserra (in about 7° S. lat.), and on one of which stands, as a prominent landmark, the ' remarkable granite pillar' of the charts of that coast. I only know this Tortoise elsewhere in the Benguella country, in 13° S. lat., in gneiss, and on a similar barren, very rocky ground. It only makes its appearance in the hot or rainy season, from October to May, and is said by the natives to hide deep in the ground during the cool season, or rest of the year." 12. A young Lemur, born in the Society's gardens on the 7th of May. Its mother was one of the so-called Black-fronted Lemurs (Lemur nigrifrons, Geoffr.); and its male parent must have been one of our Red-cheeked Lemurs (Lemur collaris, Geoffr.), as there are no other male Lemurs in the same compartment of the Monkey-house. Moreover, as already stated in m y notes on this subject (antea, p. 231), the parents were evidently paired together. The little animal (which died the same day, and the skin of which I now exhibit) is certainly most like the female parent, though a male, and does not, so far, tend materially to confirm m y theory of these two supposed different species being really opposite sexes of Lemur mongoz, although I have no doubt that this is correct. 13. A young male of the peculiar Bovine type of the island of Celebes, the Anoa (Anoa depressicornis), obtained by purchase of the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam on the 10th of May, and being the first specimen of this animal exhibited in the Society's collection. 14. A young Eagle from the port of Fow-Chow in China, purchased May 11. This bird is in the striated plumage represented in Gray's ' Indian Zoology,' ii. pl. 28, which has been usually attributed to A. imperialis, but which Mr. Howard Saunders, in his recent remarks on this subject (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 38), believed to be the young of some allied species. In order to assist in the solution of this vexed problem, I have had a sketch made of our bird in its present plumage. This I now exhibit. W e shall see what the bird turns into when it becomes adult. 15. A selection from a second collection of animals brought from Santiago, Chili, by Mr.Weisshaupt, under the same arrangements as those mentioned in the case of the similar collection received in July last year*. The selection consisted of the following animals, acquired at a total cost of £136 :- 1 Long-haired Armadillo, Dasypus vellerosus, from Mendoza. 4 Buenos-Ayres Cow-birds, Molothrus bonariensis, from Mendoza. 2 Chopi Starlings, Aphobus chopi, from Chili. 2 Long-winged Milvagos, Milvago megalopterus, from Chili. 2 Chilian Swans, Cygnus coscoroba, from Chili. 2 Andean Geese, Bernicla melanoptera, from Chili. 2 Dominican Gulls, Larus dominicanus, from Chili. 5 Rufescent Teguexins, Teius rufescens, sp. nov., from Mendoza. Of these the Dasypus vellerosus, Bernicla melanoptera, Milvago * See P. Z. S. 1870, p. 664. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1871, No. XXXV. |