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Show 354 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON DAMALIS SENEGALENSIS. [May 6, May 6, 1890. Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1890 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April was 104, of which 36 were by presentation, 3 by birth, 46 by purchase, 1 was received in exchange, and 18 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 71. Amongst the additions special attention may be called to:- Two specimens of Simony's Lizard (Lacerta simonyi) from the lonely rock of Zalmo, near the island of Ferro, Canaries. This is a rare Lizard lately described by Dr. Steindachner (Anz. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1889, p. 260), and only known from this spot, where it is said to subsist on crabs. These specimens were obtained by Canon Tristram, F.R.S., during his recent visit to the Canaries, and were presented to the Society by Lord Lilford. Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon the stuffed head of an Antelope, sent to him for identification by Mrs. Montgomerie, of Hunstou House, Ware, Herts. The specimen had been shot by Commander R. A. J. Montgomerie, R.N., of H.M.S. ' Boadicea,' on or about the 16th June, 1889, when on a shooting-excursion about four days inland from Malimdi, on the East-African coast, north of Zanzibar. It was observed, along with several others like it, amongst a herd of Zebras. Mr. Sclater referred this head to what is commonly called the Korrigum Antelope (Damalis senegalensis), and made the following remarks:- The Korrigum is a fine and conspicuous Antelope, well figured in the 'Knowsley Menagerie' (tab. xxi.) from specimens formerly living at Knowsley; but it is still rare and little known in Europe. I have never seen living specimens during my long experience among Zoological Gardens, and there is no example of its skin in the British Museum, where it is only represented by a series of skulls and horns1. The Korrigum appears to have a wide distribution across Central Africa from Senegal through the interior to Sennaar and Somali- Land. Whether it is really the " Koba " of Buffon, upon which the term senegalensis was originally founded by Desmarest, seems to be uncertain, but it is certainly the Damalis senegalensis of Gray; and there is no doubt that it occurs in Senegal, whence living 1 There are two stuffed specimens in the Derby Museum, Liverpool, as Mr. T. Moore kindly informs me, no doubt the animals formerly living in the Knowsley Menagerie. |