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Show 818 MR. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Nov. 14, This Bear was imported into London in a vessel coming from Northern China, and was stated to have been brought from the interior of that country. Its general appearance was that of the Brown Bear (U. arctos); but it was distinguishable by its broader face, ears filled with long dense hair, and short beard. Dr. Gray had proposed to found a new species on this example, and to call it Ursus lasiotus* ; but Mr. Sclater regarded it as the same animal as that figured by M . I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire in the 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Venus' (Mamm. t. 4) as "Ursus arctos, var. du Kamschatka," upon which M . Pucheran bad established his Ursus piscator (Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 392). 8. A Formosan Bear (Ursusformosanus, Swinhoe), obtained for tbe Society by Mr. R. Swinhoe, and received September 24th. This animal did not appear distinguishable externally from the Ursus tibetanus of Northern India and China. Referring to this subject, Mr. Sclater read extracts from letters received from Mr. R. Swinhoe, F.Z.S., dated British Consulate, Amoy, June 10th and August 6th, 1867, stating that the Bear sent by him to the Society in October 1866, and spoken of by the Secretary (P. Z. S. 1866, p. 418) as typical of Ursus formosanus, Swinhoe, was not from Formosa, but from the Port of Chefoo, on the Shantung Promontory, in Northern China. It was, therefore, the species referred to by Radde (Reisen in O. S. Saug. p. 12) as Ursus tibetanus, and not Ursus formosanus, which Mr. Swinhoe still regarded as a good species. 9. A female Swinhoe's Deer (Cervus swinhoii, Sclater) from Formosa, very acceptable as being the first female received of this species. This animal had likewise been obtained for the Society by Mr. Swinhoe, and received along with the Bear. 10. T w o pairs of the Japanese Teal (Querquedula formosa, Georgi), purchased September 24th-an importation which it was hoped would lead to the addition of this beautiful species to the list of ac-climatizable Waterfowl. 11. A young specimen of the Great Ant-eater (Myrmecophaga jubata) from Brazil, presented to the Society October 4th by Dr. John A. Palin, C.M.Z.S., from Brazil. A second specimen of the same animal from Bogota had been presented to the Society by Percy Brandon, Esq., of Bogota, on the 8th of November. 12. A young Cape Penguin (Spheniscus demersus (Linn.), purchased October 26th, from the Cape. 13. A Black-headed Partridge (Caccabis melanocephala, Riipp.), from Abyssinia, purchased October 30th. 14. A Bourke's Parrakeet (Euphema bourkii, Gould), purchased October 30th. 15. A young male Walrus (Trichechus rosmarus, Linn.), purchased on the 1st instant, of Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Co. of Dundee, for the sum of <=*£200. This animal had been captured in Davis's Straits by Captain * Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. xx. p. 301. |