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Show 1877.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON TROGLODYTES GORILLA. 303 April 17th, 1877. Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1877. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 118, of which 53 were by presentation, 7 by birth, 43 by purchase, 12 were received on deposit, and 3 by exchange. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 76. The most noticeable additions during the month of March were as follows:- 1. A collection of rare Himalayan Passeres, purchased March 8, embracing examples of the following ornamental species, new to the Society's Collection, viz. Megaleema hodgsoni, Grammatoptila striata, Sibia capistrata, and Hemixos flavala. 2. Two young male Orang-outangs (Simia satyrus), presented March 13, by Dr. R. Sim, F.Z.S. A letter was read addressed to the Secretary by Mr. A. Welles, of Christchurch, N e w Zealand, giving an account of the success which had attended the endeavours of the Acclimatization Society of that colony to introduce Salmon into New Zealand from the U. S. of America. Mr. Sclater exhibited specimens of the young Anacondas which had been produced dead by the large female of this Snake purchased on the 15th of February 1877. Two young had been produced on the 2nd inst., and one other subsequently ; but it seemed probable that more would follow. Another member of the Boidse that had produced young ones (already extruded from the egg) in the Gardens was stated to be the Yellow Boa of the Antilles (Chilobothrus inornatus). Mr. Sclater called attention to two large photographs of the young Gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla) now living in the Aquarium at Berlin, which had been kindly forwarded to the Society by the authorities of that Institution. This animal had been obtained by Dr. Falkenstein, of the German West-African Expedition, on the 2nd of October 1875, at Ponta Negra (about two days' journey inland from Chincoxo) on the West-African coast, from a Portuguese. The Portuguese had received it from a negro, who had shot the mother a few days before and captured the young one. Dr. Falkenstein had brought the animal with him to Berlin, and sold it to the Berlin Aquarium on the 30th of June 1876, for 20,000 marks (.£1,000) which went to the benefit of the Expedition. On its arrival in Berlin the Gorilla weighed 30 lb. (German); it |