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Show 434 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [May 6, pl. 66). The first specimen of this scarce species was presented by Dr. F. Miiller in November 1867 (see P. Z. S. 1867, p- 891). The present example, which was purchased of a dealer on March 16, is the third known specimen of this nocturnal Parrot, which was originally described by Mr. Gould, in 1861, from a mutilated skin. 2. A short-toed Eagle (Circaetus brachydactylus) from Saffi, Morocco, presented by Capt. P. Perry, March 18th. This is a well-known South-European bird of prey, but has not been represented in our series for many years, I believe. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during April 1873 was 146, of which 23 were by birth, 42 by presentation, 64 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 15 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals was 72. The most noticeable additions were as follows :- 1. A Broad-banded Armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), obtained by purchase on the 8th of April. This fine species of Armadillo is quite new to the Society's collection. 2. A pair of White-necked Cranes (Grus leucauchen, Temm.), obtained by purchase April 17th, and stated to have been received from Japan. So far as I am aware, this fine Crane has never been previously brought alive to England ; but several of the continental Societies possess examples of it. 3. In a collection of small Passerine birds, obtained from the Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris on the 25th of April, were single specimens of two interesting Japanese Buntings, neither of which bas ever previously occurred to me in a living state. These are the Yellow-browed Bunting (Emberiza chrysophrys, Pall.) and the Red-backed Bunting (Euspiza rutila, Pall). 4. A n example of Oersted's Squirrel Monkey (Saimaris cerstedi), brought from Panama by one of our correspondents of the West- Indian Mail Company, and purchased April 29th. In m y recent paper on the Central-American Quadrumana (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 3) I recorded this species as S. entomophaga, D'Orb. Prof. Reinhardt has since described and figured it as Chrysothrix cerstedi (Vid. Medd. 1872, p. 157, pl. 3), considering it, I have little doubt quite correctly, distinct from the Bolivian S. entomophaga. Mr. Sclater called attention to the fact of a young Liberian Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus liberiensis) having been recently brought alive to this country, and gave some details respecting this specimen, which had been obtained by Mr. John S. Price, of the Colonial Office, from some negroes who had brought it from the Little Scarcies River to Sierra Leone, and presented to Mr. Pope Hennessy. Mr. Hennessy had given it to the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland ; but it had died shortly after reaching Dublin. Mr. Sclater exhibited some photographs of this animal taken in Liverpool. |