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Show 1870.] THE S E C R E T A R Y O N ADDITIONS T O T H E M E N A G E R I E . 663 November 1, 1870. Professor Newton, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following reports on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and September, 1870: - The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of June 1870 was 195, of which 47 were by birth, 31 by presentation, 84 by purchase, 13 by exchange, and 20 were animals received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 121. Amongst the additions the most remarkable were:- 1. Two Australian Sacred Ibises (Ibis strictipennis, Gould, B. Austr. vi. pl. 46), purchased June 13th. The acquisition of these two birds is of much interest, as enabling the naturalist to compare together living examples of the four closely allied forms of Sacred Ibis-Ibis cethiopica of Africa, I. bernieri oi Madagascar*, /. melanocephala oi S. Asia, and I. strictipennis of Australia. 2. A male Leonine Monkey (Macacus leoninus), purchased June 14th from a London dealer. In July 1869 we obtained by presentation from Capt. R. A. Brown, as already recorded in these 'Proceedings' (1869, p. 467), a female Macaque Monkey, which had been brought by H.M.S. ' Vigilant' from the Andaman Islands. In a notice of the habits of this Monkey, published in 'Land and Water' of July 24th, Mr. Bartlett, considering the species to be undescribed, proposed to call it Macacus andamanensis (Land and Water, viii. p. 57), which name, I observed in my above-mentioned notice of it in the Society's ' Proceedings,' " would stand if the validity of the species should be confirmed by future researches." "Andaman Jenny," as this Monkey was called, has attracted considerable attention amongst the visitors to the Society's Gardens by smoking pipes and playing other extraordinary tricks, of which Mr. Bartlett has given an account in the article above referred to. Her fame having reached as far as the islands from which she was brought, Capt. Hamilton, commanding a detachment there, was induced to write to Dr. E. Hamilton, F.Z.S., to inform him that it was an error to suppose that "Andaman Jenny" was really a native of these islands, she and several companions of the same species having been brought over to Ross Island, one of the Andamans, from the adjacent mainland of Burmah-j*. Thus it appeared that, even if Mr. Bartlett was right in referring this Monkey to a new species (of which, I confess, I had at the time serious doubts), his name would require alteration. The matter stood thus until June last, when Mr. Bartlett informed me one * On tbe distinctness of this form from I. cethiopica, see my remarks, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 381. f Cf. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 220. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1870, No. XLV. |