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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. +. . January 5, 1875. Dr. E. Hamilton, V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1874. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December was 47, of which 16 were by presentation, 17 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 10 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 104. The most noticeable additions during the month of December were as follows:- 1. A Campbell's Monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli), purchased 15th December. This scarce West-African Monkey, which was originally described by Mr. "Waterhouse in our 'Proceedings' (1838, p. 6), and subsequently figured in Fraser's 'Zoologia Typica' (pl. iii.), is seldom received alive. The present example is a young female. I have only previously seen one other living example of this species. 2. T w o Hardwicke's Mastigures (Uromastix hardwickii), presented by Lieut.-Col. C. S. Sturt, C.M.Z.S., 23rd December. 3. A young pair of the Pampas Deer of the interior of Brazil and Buenos Ayres (Cervus campestris), purchased December 23rd. This Deer is seldom met with in living collections. W e have had no examples of it in the Society's Gardens since 1860. P R O C . Z O O L . Soc.-1875, No. I. 1 |