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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 9, 1866. Alfred Newton, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to the young male Gayal (Bos frontalis, Lambert), just added to the Society's Menagerie. A pair of this fine species of Bovine animal had been shipped at Calcutta for the Society by their Corresponding Member, the Babu Rajendra Mullick; but the female had unfortunately died upon the passage. A drawing by M r . Wolf (Plate I.) was exhibited, representing this interesting animal. Mr. P. L. Sclater remarked that it seemed now to be quite certain that the White-whiskered Lemur, described and figured by Mr. Bartlett (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 347, pi. XLI.) under the name Lemur leuco-mystax, was the female of the Black Lemur (Lemur macaco, Gm.). The Society's Menagerie now contained a male and two females of this species, including the original type of Lemur leucomystax, purchased in 1861. Dr. Brehm, Director of the Zoological Gardens, Hamburg, had first called Mr. Sclater's attention to the fact that the Black Lemurs were always males, and the White-whiskered ones females, such being the case in the Hamburg Gardens (which contained in August last two males and a female of this species) as well as in this Society's Gardens. The matter, however, had been definitely set at rest by two enterprising Dutch travellers, M M . Pollen and Van Dam, who, during their recent excursion into North-western Madagascar, PROC. ZOOL. SOC.-1866, No. I. |
