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Show 1875.] LETTER FROM MR. H. A. WICKHAM. 633 Amsterdam Gardens are unknown, I am fortunate in being able to give the south end of N e w Guinea, opposite Yule Island, as the true habitat of Goura scheepmakeri, having been kindly informed by Mr. Sclater that several specimens of it are contained in the last collection sent to the Civic Museum of Genoa, by the indefatigable Italian traveller Signor dAlbertis, from that locality. December 7, 1875. George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1875 was read by the Secretary :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1875 was 98, of which 2 were by birth, 35 by presentation, 38 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 19 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 124. The most noticeable additions during the month were:- 1. A female Beisa Antelope (Oryx beisa) from Eastern Africa, presented by H.H. the Sultan of Zanzibar, and received November 8, 1875. This addition is the more welcome, as it makes a pair to the male of the same species presented by Admiral A. Cumming, R.N., in 1874. I believe that this is the only pair of this fine Antelope in Europe. 2. Two All-Green Tanagers (Chlorophonia viridis) from Brazil, purchased November 16, 1875. This species is new to the collection, and has not, so far as I know, been previously received in a living state. Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of Hypocolius ampelinus, Bp. (Consp. i. p. 336; Heuglin, Ibis, 1868, p. 181, pl. v.), which had been obtained by Mr. W . T. Blanford at Mazatani Nai, in Upper Scinde, to the west of Shikarpur, in March 1875, as already recorded by Mr. Blanford in 'The Ibis,' 1875, p. 388. M. Oustalet, of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, had kindly compared this specimen with an adult male example from Sennaar, received from M . Botta (the original discoverer of this curious bird) in 1839, and had found them completely identical. M. Oustalet stated that there were three mounted specimens of Hypocolius ampelinus in the Gallery of the Paris Museum, received from M. Botta. . . Mr. Sclater remarked that this discovery was ol special interest, as a further proof of the extension of some of the most characteristic types of the iEthiopian Fauna into Western India. Mr. Sclater read an extract from a letter addressed to him by |
