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Show PROCEEDINGS OP Tnu SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OP TIIK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 4, 1876. Prof. Newton, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1875 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December were 86 in number. Of these, 17 were acquired by presentation, 54 by purchase, I by exchange, 1 by birth, and 13 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 113. The most noticeable additions during the month of December were as follows :- A Haast's Apteryx (Apteryx haasti) from New Zealand, presented by Baron F. von Mueller, C.M.Z.S., 18th December, 1875. Two examples of this Apteryx were despatched by our esteemed correspondent from Melbourne ; but only one reached us alive-the first living individual of this recently determined species (assuming that its distinctness from A. oweni is fairly established) that has arrived in this country. A Night-Parrot (Stringops habroptilus) from New Zealand, presented by Mr. T. E. Featherston, 23rd December, 1875. Three male Moose (Alces machlis) from North America, deposited 28th December, 1875. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1876, No. I. 1 |