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Show 1868.J THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 529 which meets the mail-steamer at Monte Video, with the following living animals:- 4 Sea-Lions (Otaria jubata). 1 Gentoo Penguin (Pygosceles wagleri). 4 Rock-hopper Penguins (Eudyptes nigrivestis). 6 Kelp Geese (Chloephaga magellanica and C. antarctica). 9 Logger-headed Geese (Micropterus cinereus). 8 Johnny Rooks (Milvago australis). 7 Cormorants (Phalacrocorax magellanicus and P. carunculatus). 12 Gulls (Larus dominicanus, L. scoresbii, & c ). 6 Starlings (Sturnella militaris). 22 Finches (Phrygilus melanoderus). 2 Sea-hens (Hcematopus niger). 2 Foxes (Canis antarcticus). But the weather was very unfavourable between Port Stanley and Monte Video, and seventy-one of the animals died en route. For some time longer the four Sea-Lions remained in good health and condition; but a passenger having died of yellow fever, the stock of fish shipped for feeding them was condemned on account of its smell and ordered to be thrown overboard. The consequence was the loss of three out of the four Sea-Lions-the survivor having been kept alive as far as Lisbon, when a fresh supply was obtained, mainly by the Flying-fishes (Exoceti), which fell on the deck at night and were purchased from the sailors who picked them up. Besides the Sea-Lion, Lecomte succeeded in bringing to the Gardens only the following animals :- 1 Antarctic Wolf (Canis antarcticus). 2 Forster's Milvago (Milvago leucurus). 1 Kelp Goose (Chloephaga antarctica). 2 Upland Geese (Chloephaga magellanica). 1 Dominican Gull (Larus dominicanus). 8. A young male African Two-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis), purchased September 11th (see Plate XLI.). This animal, which was believed to be the first individual of the species which had reached Europe alive since the days of the Romans, was purchased for the Society of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, the well-known dealer of Hamburgh. It had been originally captured, on the 12th of February 1868, by the Arabs of the Beni-Ammer tribe, in the vicinity of Casala, in Upper Nubia, and sold by them to Herr Casanova, an enterprising traveller of Vienna. Pending the completion of the new house for Rhinoceros and Elephants, now in process of erection, this Rhinoceros had been temporarily lodged in the Giraffe House. 9. Two specimens of the Dotted-jawed Cayman (Jacarepunctulata), obtained in the Island of Tobago and presented to the Society by Capt. Spicer, of the ship 'Mary,' on the 18th of September. 10. O n the 14th of October, a selection had been obtained from a series of Chilian and La-Platan animals sent to Europe by the newlv established Zoological Society of Santiago, to be disposed of |