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Show 1889.] SIR E. G. LODER ON HAPLOCERUS MONTANUS. 59 had stated in a letter addressed to Mr. Sclater that this Antelope, of which he had sent home specimens of the male, female, and young male, is only found on the north side of the river Tana. The Somalis informed Mr. Hunter that it extended along the coast up to Kismayu. The Galla name for this Antelope was said to be "Haranta." Mr. Sclater hoped to be able to give a full description of this animal at a subsequent meeting. Sir E. G. Loder, Bart., F.Z.S., exhibited a mounted skeleton of a Rocky-Mountain Goat (Haplocerus montanus), and made the following remarks :- The Goat, a male, was shot by me September 1887 in the Rocky Mountains, Montana, U.S., long. W . 113° 10', lat. N. 47° 30', about 40 miles S.E. of Flat-head Lake. Although the animal has been known to science for a longtime, I do not know whether there is a complete mounted skeleton in any museum in the world. The bones of the skeleton of the Rocky-Mountain Goat are accurately and minutely described by Sir John Richardson in the 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Herald,' published in 1854. A bad figure of the animal had previously been published by Richardson in ' Fauna Boreali-Americana' in 1829. I think it possible that the present skeleton of the Rocky-Mountain Goat is the first that has ever been mounted. Mr. Henry A. Ward of Rochester, U.S., tells me that he has never had one. This one will be preserved in m y own collection, but I have two others (both females), one of which I shall present to the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, and the other to the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The chief peculiarity in the skeleton of the Rocky-Mountain Goat is in the shortness of the metacarpal bone, which is only about 4 inches long. Dr. A. Giintber, F.R.S., exhibited a mounted specimen of his Gazella thomsoni (Ann. N. II. ser. 5, xiv. p. 427), obtained by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, F.Z.S., in Masailand, and pointed out its differences from Gazella granti. The following papers were read :- |