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Show 178 T H E SEI KETARY O N ADDITIONS T O T H E MENAGERIE. [May 16, May 16, 1871. Prof. Flower, F.R.S., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1871. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1871 was 215, of which 13 were by birth, 99 by presentation, 92 by purchase, two by exchange, and 9 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period by death and removals was 100, showing a net addition of 115 individuals to the collection during the month. The most noticeable additions were the following :- 1. A female of the new Deer which I have lately described and figured as Cervus alfredi (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 381, pl. xxviii.), received in exchange April 1st. This animal closely resembles the male in general appearance (except in the absence of horns), and is of very great interest, as confirming the validity of the species. I have also positive information as to its locality, this animal having been brought to England direct from the Philippines. Having a special article in preparation on this and the other known Deer of the Philippine Islands, I will defer saying more on this subject at present. 2. A second young one of the Collared Fruit-bat (Cynonycteris collaris), born in the Gardens, April 7th, and produced by the same pair as the former one, born in February last year (see P. Z. S. 1870, p. 127). The first young, which is a male, is still alive and doing well, keeping closely in company with its parents, and rather away from the other Fruit-bats in the same cage. 3. A young female Spider Monkey, purchased April 11th. This animal was obtained at Colon by an officer of the R. West-Indian Mail Co., and was stated to have been brought from the Atrato river by one of the American party now engaged on the survey of the isthmus for a ship-canal. It is of a uniform black, with the whole under surface of the belly pale fulvous, which colour, however, hardly extends on to the under surface of the limbs. The face and muzzle are flesh-colour. The hair is rough and upstanding, and appears to project forward on the forehead. It has no traces of an external thumb, lt would appear to belong to the same group as Ateles variegatus, Wagner, but has no traces of a frontal band, or of white hairs on the sides of the face. I have been a little doubtful about this specimen, but on the whole am inclined to refer it to Ateles vellerosus, Gray*, with which it agrees more nearly than with any other described species. 4. A Geoffroy's Marmoset (Midas geoffroiiY), purchased April 11th, having been brought from Colon along with the Ateles just mentioned. Of this beautiful species, of which I exhibit a sketch * Ateles vellerosus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 733; Cat. Monkeys, p. 44. t Hapale geoffroii. Puch. R. Z. 1845, p. 33G. |