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Show 1875.] LETTKR FROM DR. A. B. MEYER. 469 June 15, 1875. Prof. Newton, 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 May 1875. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of M a y was 165. Of these, 100 were acquired by presentation, 34 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 18 by birth, 1 by hatch, and 8 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 113. The most noticeable additions during the month of May were as follows:- 1. A Hairy Tree-Porcupine (Cercolabes villosus, F. Cuv.) from South-East Brazil, and 2. A Rock-Cavy, 3 (Cerodon rupestris, Max.), from the same country. Both of these Rodents, which were purchased on May 5th cf a dealer in Liverpool, are new to the Society's collection. 3. A fine example of the King Penguin (Aptenodytes pennanti) from the Falkland Islands, presented by Mr. Frederick E. Cobb, Manager of the Falkland-Islands Company at Stanley, Falkland Islands, received May 18th. 4. A n example of an apparently new species of Monkey allied to the common Macaque (Macacus cynomolgus), presented by Dr. Marfels, Conservator of Forests to the King of Burmah, Mandalay, Burmah, and brought home by Dr. J. Anderson, F.Z.S., May 19th. Dr. Anderson will give us a complete description of this Monkev. 5. A small Wallaby of a species new to the Society's Menagerie, purchased May 28th. It appears to be, as kindly suggested by Mr. Gould, an example of the Agile Wallaby (Halmaturus agilis), Gould's * Mammals of Australia,' ii. pis. 24 & 25, from North Australia. 6. An about half-grown Australian Cassowary (Casuarius australis), from Queensland, presented by E. P. Ramsay, Esq., C.M.Z.S., May 28th, making the second example of this hitherto little-known species now alive in the Gardens. 7. Two Jameson's Gulls (Larus jamesoni), from Sydney, N.S.W., presented by C. Moore, Esq., C.M.Z.S., M a y 28th,'being the first example of this beautiful species we have received alive. A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by Dr. A. B. Meyer, stating that he had made inquiries of Mr. Van Musschenbroek, of Ternate, as to the truth of the statement of Mr. Bruyn (P. Z. S. 1875, p. 30) that he had specimens of four species of Birds of Paradise living in his possession, and had ascertained that this was not the fact, and that the only living Birds of Paradise in Mr. Bruyn's possession were two examples of Paradisea papuana. The onlv foundation for the story was that Mr. Bruyn expected to get specimens of other species. |