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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OP THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 1901, Vol. I. (January to April). • January 15, 1901. Prof. G. B. HOWES, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1900 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1900 were 211 in number. Of these 91 were acquired by presentation and 16 by purchase, and 104 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 158. Amongst the additions attention may be specially directed to the seven specimens of Verreaux's Guinea-fowl (Guttera eclouardi) presented on December 31st by Mr. J. F. Walker of Bulawayo. Mr. Walker states that this Guinea-fowl is found only, so far as he knows, in the Wankie Hills, a district due north of Bulawayo, and about midway between that city and the Zambesi. Only one specimen of it had previously reached the Society's aviaries (see P.Z. S. 1S90, p. 86). I wish also to direct attention to the valuable series of Indian birds lately presented to the Society by Mr. E. W . Harper, F.Z.S., of Calcutta, consisting of examples of twenty species, all new to the Society's Collection, of which the following is a list. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1901, V O L . I. No. I. 1 |