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Show 1877.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 681 The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of July was 145 ; of these, 54 were acquired by presentation, 48 by purchase, 5 by exchange, 22 by birth, and 16 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removal, was 102. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A Prehensile Paradoxure (Paradoxurus prehensilis)1, from Assoun, on the Hounderaw river, about 90 miles from Moulmein, Burmah, presented July 13th, by W . H. Pattison, Esq. This Paradoxure (Plate LXXI.) is of a well-marked and peculiar species, quite new to us, and appears to be little known except from the figure in Hardwicke and Gray's 'Indian Zoology' (ii. pl. 9), taken from a drawing of Buchanan-Hamilton. Its tail is very long and slender, and appears to be slightly prehensile. 2. A Urumutum Curassow (Nothocrax urumutum), from the Upper Amazons, purchased July 16th. When I communicated to the Society m y memoir on the Curassows in 1873 (see Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 273) I was unable to figure this rare species from a living example. As will be seen by the coloured sketch now exhibited, the bare skin over the eye was, in consequence, coloured wrongly, the upper portion over the eye being bright yellow instead of blue. 3. A Crane, obtained from ^Chantung, in Northern China, and kindly transmitted to the Society by Mr. Theodore Hance, of Ching-kiang. It appears to belong to the eastern form of the Common Crane, called Grus longirostris in the ' Fauna Japonica.' Comparing this bird (of which I exhibit a sketch by Mr. Smit) with the C o m m o n Crane of Europe, Grus cinerea, it seems to differ in its lighter colour, and in the uropygiai plumes being cinereous with black terminations, instead of being altogether black as in the common species ; but I doubt its being specifically different. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of August were 116 in number; of these, 67 were acquired by presentation, 19 by purchase, 4 by birth, 8 by exchange, and 18 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals were 110. The most noticeable additions during the month were: - 1. A Cape Hedgehog (Erinaeeus frontalis), purchased August 13th, being the first example of this southern representative of our familiar British species that has reached us. 2. A young example of the American Tantalus (Tantalus loculator), purchased August 30th. 3. A Brazilian Motmot (Momotus brasiliensis), purchased on the same day. Both these birds belong to species hitherto unrepresented in the Society's Aviaries. I may take this opportunity of pointing out that, as suggested to me by Prof. Garrod, the male Deer, which we have had for some 1 Viverra prehensilis, Desm. See Horsf. Cat. Mamm. E.I. C. p. 63. |