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Show 1876.] THE SECRETARY O N ADDITIONS T O T H E MENAGERIE. 695 Liverpool on the 6th of March last, aud stated to have been from Maranham. They consist of an adult male, and an adult and younger female. I exhibit Mr. Smit's sketches of the adult pair of the Indian birds (Plate LXVII.), and corresponding views of the American specimens (Plate LXVIII.), by which it will be seen that the two forms are readily distinguishable. In the Indian bird (S. melanonota)*, the flanks are white, surmounted by a curved black line coming from beneath the bend of the wing; the female is much inferior in size to the male, and has no caruncle on her bill. In the American bird, which, as Mr. Salvin and I have shown in our article on South-American Anatidae (anted, p. 377), should be termed Sarcidiornis carunculata (Licht.), the sexes are nearly equal in size, the female bears a comb on the head as well as the male, and the flanks are conspicuously black. I think, therefore, there can no longer be any question that the Indian and American Sarcidior nit lies should stand as distinct species. What the African bird (Sarcidiornis africana, Eyton) is remains still to be seen. 2. A Bear, purchased July 21st, and stated to have been obtained out of a vessel coming from New Orleans, seems, although quite young, from its long claws and peculiar pale colour, to be referable to nothing else than the Grizzly Bear (Ursus ferox), of which we have had for mauy years no specimen in the Society's collection. 3. Two Crested Guinea-fowls (Numida cristata), hatched in the Society's Gardens July 27th, being, so far as I know, the first specimens of this fine bird bred in Europe. The eggs were taken from the bird and hatched by a common hen after thirty days' incubation. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of August was 96 ; of these 42 were acquired by presentation, 28 by purchase, 14 by birth, and 12 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals was 81. The most noticeable additions during the month were:- 1. A young example of the Raccoon-like Dog (Ngctereates pro-cynides), from China, presented by Captain Burgoyne, August 1st, being the second example of this rare and curious Carnivore that has reached us. 2. A fine adult male of the Grizzly Bear (Ursus ferox), imported into Liverpool from San Francisco, and purchased August 12th. This is perhaps the first undoubted example of this Bear that has of late years reached us, and gives us an opportunity of comparing this animal in its living aspect with large specimens of Ursus arctos, of which we have several in the collection. The most noticeable differences are the longer claws and the long hair down the front of the neck. 3. Three White-crested Laughing Thrushes (Garruldx leucolo-phus), from Northern India, purchased August 15th. These have * Anas melanonota, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 42, tab. xi. (1781), ex Oye de la Coromandel, Buff. Pl. Enl. 337. 46* |