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Show 784 MR. SCLATER ON CONTINENTAL MENAGERIES. [Nov. 17 In the well-ordered Gardens at Cologne (under the care of Dr. Wunderlich), M r . Sclater had observed a fine pair of Phaco-chcerus cellanl from Somaliland, five examples of Cervus davidianus (an adult male, two adult females, and two young males), examples of a small but very pretty Kangaroo (Onychogalea frenata), which he had not previously seen alive, and a specimen of Bassaris astuta from Mexico. A family of five Sea-lions (Otaria califomiana) lived together in perfect harmony along with several Cormorants. Amongst the birds at Cologne had been noticed an example of Haliaetus branickii, received in 1893, in wdiich the base of the black tail was just beginning to show white feathers, as in the specimen in the Society's Gardens1; also specimens of Ggps bengalensis and Cathartes urubltinga, a pair of Cygnus amerlcanus, and an example of a rare S. American Heron, Ardea leucogastra. At the smaller but well-kept Zoological Garden of Diisseldorf (managed by Herr Inspector Goffart) there was a very fine and large adult male specimen of Cercocebus albigena, with the long hairs on the neck and shoulders much developed. This animal had been obtained at Caio on the R. L u e m m e north of the Congo, and presented by Herr Robert Visser eight years ago. There was also in the Monkey-house a fine series of Mandrills (Papio maimon) of various ages. A male Ovis muslmon had bred freely with some ewes of the domestic Sheep (Helde-schaf), and had produced many hybrids wdiich were said to be perfectly fertile inter se. There was also in this Garden a large flock of Ovls tragelaphus-some 25 in number-of both sexes and all ages kept together. In the Zoological Garden of Hanover (Herr Schaff, Director) were two examples of the Conurus which Mr. Sclater had described (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 539, pl. lvi.) as C. rubritorquis. Count Salvadori (Cat. Birds, xx. p. 190) had united this species to the Mexican C. holochlorus, but Messrs. Salvin and Godman bad recently received examples of it from Nicaragua, and were of opinion that it was a valid species. There was a fine adult female Hippopotamus in this Garden-an imported specimen. The Garden of the Royal Zoological Society, "Natura Artis Magistra,"at Amsterdam (Director, Dr. Kerbert), always contained a large and wrell-ordered series of animals. Upon this occasion the following had attracted Mr. Sclater's special attention:-a young male of the South-American Marsh-Deer (Cariacus palu-dosus); a young female Sumatran Rhinoceros from Borneo (Bhlnoceros sumatrensls); a well-marked example of the Side-striped Jackal (Canls lateralis, Sci. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 279, pl. xxxiii.); a Corsac Fox (C. corsac) ; and a fine adult female specimen of the Mountain-Antelope of Sumatra (Caprlcornls sumatrensis). The 1 Mr. Sclater took this opportunity of exhibiting a drawing of the specimen of Branicki's Eagle (Haliaetus branickii) living in the Society's Gardens, taken by Mr. Smit in July 1896 (Plate XXXVII.). This bird had been acquired by purchase from the Zoological Garden of Hamburg on Sept. 21,1893 (see P. Z. S. 1893, p. 613). |
