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Show 796 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Dec. 6, December 6, 1870. R. Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the months of October and November, 1870:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October was 71, of which 2 were by birth, 47 by presentation, 5 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 13 were animals received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 108. The more remarkable animals among the acquisitions were: - 1. Two Red-tailed Guans (Ortalida ruficauda) from Tobago, received October 4th, having been presented to the Society by the Hon. W . J. Buhot, M.D., M.R.C.S., of that island. These are the first examples of this Guan ever received alive by the Society, but were in very poor condition when they arrived. One has since died ; but the other seems likely to recover. 2. A fine specimen of Geoffroy's Cat (Felis geoffroii), purchased October 10th of Capt. E. Hairby, by whom it was brought from Buenos Ayres, with the information that it had been obtained from Paraguay. On the arrival of this animal I identified it from memory with a specimen I had seen in the British Museum, upon which Dr. Gray had established his Leopardus himalayanus (List of Mamm. in B. M . p. 44), and of which he afterwards made a new genus and species under the name Pardalina warwickii*. . Mr. Bartlett, having examined the specimen in the British Museum, confirmed my opinion ; and I accordingly entered the animal on the register as Warwick's Cat (Felis warwickiif). The so-called Felis warwickii being now dead, I have been able to examine it more carefully, and find it to belong to a well-known South-American species-Felis geoffroii of D'Orbigny and Gervais. This Cat was discovered by D'Orbigny on the Rio Negro, and is well figured and described in the 'Magasin de Zoologie' (1844, M a m m. pl. 57), and in D'Orbigny's 'Voyage' ( M a m m . p. 25, tab. 14). In the latter work the skull is also figured (pl. 13. figs. 1, la). Burmeister (La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 397) tells us that it is found all over the Argentine Republic in the more wooded districts. The native name is "Gato montese"-the Felis pajeros, which we have also lately received alive (cf. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 530) being designated as the "Gato de la pampai' I have now also myself compared our specimen with the original of Pardalina warwickii in the British Museum, and have no doubt of their belonging to the same species. The skull of our specimen, which was a young although fully grown animal, does not, however, * Cat. Cam., Pach., and Edentate Mamm. p. 14 (1869). t See ' Field' for 22nd October, 1870, p. 349. |