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Show 668 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO T H E MENAGERIE. [NOV. 1, 13. A Spider Monkey brought home from Trinidad, and presented to the Society by the Hon. Arthur Gordon, C.M.Z.S. and lately Governor of that colony, on the 14th of July. Mr. Gordon informs me, in reply to inquiries, that this Monkey was obtained for him by one of his correspondents from the upper part of the Caura River, a southern confluent of the Orinoco, and was considered to be a very rare species. I was inclined to refer it to Ateles belzebuth of Geoffroy St.-Hilaire (Ann. d. Mus. vii. p. 271), and have inserted it in the Register under this name. But the animal having unfortunately died, and having been sent to the British Museum, is, as I am informed, considered by Dr. Gray to be probably a female of his Ateles bartlettii (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 992, pl. XLVII.). I do not think this is probable. I take Dr. Gray's Ateles bartlettii to be the same as Ateles variegatus of Wagner (Schreb. Suppl. i. p. 313, et Abh. Acad. Munich, v. p. 420), which was discovered by Johann Natterer on the Upper Rio Negro in 1831. Now Wagner's description of A. variegatus (which agrees exactly with A. bartlettii) was, as he informs us, taken from a female; so that in this species the sexes must be nearly alike*. 14. A young Hornbill, of a species closely allied to Buceros cylindricus, Temm.,-of which the bill only is figured in ' Planches Colo-riees' (Pl. Col. 521), but the bird itself is described by Hartlaub (Orn. Westafr. p. 162),-and to B. fistulator, Cassin. As, however, it is not identical with either of these species, I subjoin a short diagnosis of it, which, together with the accompanying figure, taken from the living bird, will, I think, render it easily recognizable :- BUCEROS SUBCYLINDRICUS, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIX.) Niger cristatus: capitis plumis albescente cinereo variegatis; dorso postico, campterio alari et alarum dimidio apicali albis, remigibus tribus externis exceptis nigris: subtus niger; ventre imo, tibiis et crisso albis; cauda alba: rectricibus duabus intermediis totis, nisi ad ipsum apicem, et rectricum lateralium fascia lata basin versus nigris; rostro et pedibus nigris ; rostri culmine elevato, valde compresso, cultrato, arcuato: iridibus rufis: long, tota 24, alee, 11*5, caudce 10, rostri a rictu 4, poll. Angl. et dec. Hab. Africa occidentalis. Obs. A B. cylindrico, capite maculato et rectricibus mediis nigris, a B. fistidatore capite maculato et secondariis omnino albis distinguendus. 15. A rare Southern Asiatic Blindsnake (Typhlops nigro-albus, Dum. et Bibron; Gunther, Ind. Rept. p. 172), purchased July 19th. The species was identified for us by Dr. Giinther, to whom the Society is greatly indebted for the determination of the Reptiles in their living collection. 16. A second example of the new Kangaroo which I described * Cf. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 472. |
