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Show PROCEEDINGS OF TUB SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. •• January 19, 1886. Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1885 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December was 157. Of these 2 were by birth, 137 by presentation, 2 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 14 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, b}' death and removals, was 116. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A male Cheetah (Cyn&lurus jubatus), received December 8th, presented to the Society by Nawab Mirza Hassim Ali Khan, of the Afghan Frontier Survey. A pair of feline animals captured, in November 1884, near the Istci Pass on the Perso-Afghan frontier, when quite young, after the mother had been shot, by some of the members of the Afghan Boundary Commission, were believed at the time to be Snow-Leopards (Felis uncia) \ and were forwarded to Pisheen, where they were kindly kept through last summer by Mr. H. J. Barnes, Political Agent at Quetta. The survivor of them, having arrived in this country, proves to be not a Snow-Leopard, but a fine young male Cheetah (Cyncelurus jubatus). The Cheetah was well known to occur in Persia (see Blanford's ' Eastern Persia,' vol. ii. p. 35), but I am not aware that its occurrence so near the frontiers of Afghanistan has been actually recorded. 2. A young female Tiger, deposited by J. E. T. Aitchison, Esq., 1 See Sir Peter Lumsden's letter, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 610. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1886, No. I. 1 |