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Show 878.] MR. J. H. GURNEY ON ASTURINULA MONOGRAMMICA. 791 as Cervus mesopotamicus, purchased October 31st. This makes a pair of this fine Deer now in the Society's Gardens. Like the male obtained in 1877, the present specimen was obtained at Bussorah and brought to England by our energetic correspondent Capt. Phillips, of the S.S. ' Mesopotamia.' I take this opportunity of recording the following facts relating to some hybrid Monkeys lately born in the Society's Menagerie, which Prof. Garrod has kindly put together for m e : - During the earlier months of the present year (1878) there were, together in one cage, three Monkeys along with others of smaller size and less developed. The three were :-(1) a male of Macacus cynomolgus, or of one of the allied local forms, from Upper Burmah (presented on M a y 19th, 1875), a particularly fine specimen; (2) a female adult Cercoeebus fuliginosus (presented on the 3rd of April, 1876) ; and (3) a female Mandrill, Cynocephalus mormon (presented on the 5th of September, 1877), not adult. The keepers of the House assert that they repeatedly observed the male Macaque in copulation with both females. O n October 2nd the Mangabey fell down from a high perch in her cage dead. All organs, including the brain, appeared quite healthy on postmortem examination. The uterus contained a foetus far advanced in growth, apparently lacking about three weeks or a fortnight of full development. O n October 14th the Mandrill gave birth to a live young one, which still survives. There seems no reason to doubt that the Macaque was the father of both the young ones, there being no male Mandrill nor Mangabey which could have had access to them, and the Mandrill's young one having a short tail1. The following note was read from Mr. J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S.:- "Northrepps Hall, Norwich, Jnly 30, 1878. " In the' Proceedings ' of the Society for the present year, mention is made at page 354 of two specimens oi Asturinula monogrammica, procured by Mr. E. C. Buxton at Darra-Salam, on the eastern coast of Africa. " One of these skins was presented by Mr. Buxton to the Norwich Museum, accompanied by the following memorandum :-' Sings like any thing of an evening and, I believe, morning.' " I am not aware that this habit of A. monogrammica has been previously noticed; and as it appears to indicate an affinity between this species and the genus Melierax (which Asturinula also resembles when adult, in the remarkable red coloration of the cere, tarsi, and fppt^i I think Mr. Buxton's short note on the subject ought to be recorded. « J. H. GURNEY." 1 Cf Blvth's notice of a hybrid Monkey between Macacus nemestrinus and Cynocephalus porcarius in J. A. S. B. xxxii. p. 455 (1863). 0 - |