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Show 1870.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 279 May 12, 1870. Professor Newton, V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read notices of the more important additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April, and called particular attention to:- 1. A female Rusine Deer, purchased April 13th, and stated to have been received from the Philippines. The Rusine form of Deer of the Philippines was still very imperfectly known. The present animal was of small size, about equalling that of the Hog-deer (ft porcinus), but more slender in form. It was very dark in colour, being of a nearly uniform dark brown ; the ears short and rather rounded, apparently naked on the outside. Round the eye was a pale mark; the tail beneath and insides of thighs were white; and the white metatarsal gland-patches were very prominent. This Deer had been for the present designated Cervus marianus- the Deer of the Marianne Islands (upon which this term had been founded by Desmarest), having been stated to have been introduced into those islands from the Philippines*. 2. A Jackal, purchased April 1st, and stated to have been brought from the River Fernand Vas, south of the Gaboon, and to be the animal referred to in D u Chaillu's 'Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa' (p. 243) in the following passage: - " Before we got to town again I shot a Mboyo, a very shy animal of the Wolf kind, with long yellowish hair and straight ears. I have often watched these beasts surrounding and chasing small game for themselves. The drove runs very well together; and as their policy is to run round and round, they soon bewilder, tire out, and capture any animal of moderate endurance." Mr. Sclater stated that he had in vain endeavoured to find a name for this very distinctly marked species of the genus Canis. There did not appear to be any specimen at all resembling it in the British Museum. It was not possible to describe it accurately from the living individual; but the animal appeared to be at once distinguishable from every described species of the genus by the black and white stripe extending along the flanks, and the very long black tail with a distinct white termination. Mr. Sclater proposed as a temporary designation for this species the name of the Side-striped Jackal (Canis lateralis), and exhibited a drawing by M . Keulemans (Plate XXIII.) representing it. Its general size and appearance was that of the Black-backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas), from which, however, it was readily recognizable by its sharper and more pointed snout, the distinct side-stripes, and the long, white-tipped tailf. * See Quoy et Gaim. Zool. Voy. Uranie, p. 33. t Since this notice was written I have received a letter from Dr. Peters (to whom 1 had sent a copy of the number of the ' Illustrated London News' of April 30th, containing a figure of this animal, p. 465), suggesting that the species |