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Show 418 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON RARE MAMMALS [June 1, the additions made to the Society's Menagerie. On the present occasion I have several such rectifications to offer, and have, moreover, additional remarks to make on certain of the rarer species which now are, or lately have been, exhibited in our Gardens. 1. MACACUS SPECIOSUS. (Plate XLVII.) Macacus speciosus, G. St.-Hil. et F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. M a m . i. t. 46. On the 2nd of March last year Capt. Nutsford, of the ship * West-bury,' brought home for us, from the east, a young female Ape, which was entered in the register at the time as a " St. John's Monkey," and as having been presented by that gentlemen. The Ape, growing more mature, began to show its red face; and upon reexamining it in the autumn, I came to the conclusion that it was a Japanese Ape (Lnuus speciosus of the 'Fauna Japonica'), and so entered it in the Appendix to the volume of Proceedings for last year*. This specimen, now nearly adult, is still thriving in the Monkey-house. The fur is generally of a more olive tinge than is given in the figures hitherto published, and the face not perhaps quite so carneous, as will be seen by Mr. Keulemans's drawing. I also now find that the real donor of the animal is Mr. Abel A. J. Gower, H.B.M. Consul at Hiogo and Osaka in Japan, to whom we are also indebted for a specimen of the rare Pteromys leucogenys and other rare animals. Mr. Gower informs m e that he obtained this Monkey at Kioto, some thirty miles from Hiogo, where the species is common on the hills f. According to the * Revised Catalogue of Vertebrates' (p. 16%), it will be noticed that we have previously received, in 1864, a Monkey considered to be Macacus speciosus. But Dr. Gunther has called m y attention to the fact that this specimen, which is now in the British Museum, is really an example of Macacus melanotus §-a species established by Ogilby, founded on a specimen also formerly living in the Society's Menagerie and now in the British Museum. This Macaque, of which the habitat is still unfortunately unknown, is at once distinguishable from M. speciosus by its minutely punctulated fur, whereas that of M. speciosus is quite uniform. 2. MACACUS RHESO-SIMILIS, Sclater, P.-Z. S. 1872, p. 495, pl. xxv. This was a provisional name based by me on a single female specimen brought by Mr. Jamrach from Calcutta in 1872. The individual died on the 9th of the following December; and I exhibit its skin and skull, which I now propose to transfer to the British Museum. The specimen agrees best with the imperfectly known M. * See P.Z. S. 1874, p. 685. t Dr. J. J. Rein (Zool. Gart. 1875, p. 55) tells us that this Ape is found all over the island of Nippon up to 41° N. lat., and has consequently a further northern range than any other existing Monkey. } See also P. Z. S. 1864, p. 709. § Papio melanotus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 31. |