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Show 664 T H E SECRETARY O N ADDITIONS T O T H E MENAGERIE. [Nov. 1, morning with great satisfaction that he had secured for the Society on approval a male of the so-called "Andaman Monkey," and that there could be no longer any doubt of its being a most distinct species, and quite new to us in this country. On visiting the Gardens next day to examine our new acquisition, I found that Mr. Bartlett's statement was amply justified by the facts. The male Monkey was certainly of a species quite new to myself and others, and one of which there was no specimen in the British Museum. But on showing it to Mr. Blyth, his experienced eye at once detected that it was of a species which had been received in Calcutta from Aracan in 1844, and, after several attempts to refer it to described speciesf, had been named by him Inuus leoninus. I now exhibit a drawing by M r . Wolf of this remarkable addition to our series of living Quadrumana. The species, as has been already observed, is no doubt most nearly allied to the Pig-tailed Macacus nemestrinus, but is at once recognizable by the peculiar crescent-shaped arrangement of the elevated hairs forming the crest on the head, the more vivid colouring, and the longer tail. A n exact description must be deferred until the decease of the animal; but the accompanying figure (Plate X X X V . ) will render it easily recognizable. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of July 1870 was 199 ; of these 27 were by birth, 31 by presentation, 121 by purchase, 1 by exchange, and 19 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 168. The most remarkable additions during the month of July were :- 1. Three Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus buccinator), hatched on the Three-island Pond in the Society's Gardens on July 6th, being the first instance of this American species having bred in the Society's Gardens, and, as far as it is known, in Europe. The Cygnets of the Trumpeter Swan are of a uniform ashy grey in their first plumage, darker than in the corresponding plumage of C. olor. They are now moulting, and seem to be whiter on the breast and darker on the back than the C o m m o n Swan at the same period. O n the same day also (July 6th) a large and valuable collection of living animals, sent from the Zoological Gardens of Santiago, in Chili, under the care of M r . Albert Weisshaupt, arrived in the Society's Gardens. Of these the following selection, embracing examples of all the best species, was acquired for the sum of .•£462:- MAMMALS. *2 Chilian Skunks Mephitis chilensis. *2 Magellanic Jackals Canis magellanicus. 3 Patagonian Cavies Dolichotis patachonica. 3 Chinchillas Chinchilla lanigera. 2 Coypus Myopotamus coypus. t Macacus nemestrinus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. pt. 1, p. 473. "Inuus arctoides, Is. Geoffr.;" Blyth, ibid. xvi. pt. 2, p. 731. Inuus leoninus, Blyth, Cat. M a m m . Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 7. Hab. Aracan. |