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Show 1871.] MR. P. L. SCLATER O N ANIMALS IN T H E MENAGERIE. 489 3. TRAGELAPHUS EURYCEROS. (Plate XXXIX.) 1836. Antilope euryceros, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 120. 1850. Tragelaphus euryceros, Gray, Knowsley Menag. p. 27, t. xxiii. f. 1, and P. Z. S. 1850, p. 144. 1850. Strepsiceros euryceros, Turner, P.Z.S. 1850, p. 171. 1860. Tragelaphus albo-virgatus, Du Chaillu, Proc. Soc. Nat. Hist. Boston, 1860, p. 299. 1861. Tragelaphus albo-virgatus, Du Chaillu, Expl. Equatorial Africa, p. 306. 1861. Tragelaphus euryceros, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 276. Exact Localities and Authorities. Ashkankoloo Mountains, 60 miles south of the equator, 140 miles from the coast (Du Chaillu). List of Specimens examined. a. Frontal bone and horns (T. euryceros, b, Cat. Bones B. Mus. p. 126). b. Skull and horns. Type specimen of T. euryceros. Mus. Brit. c. Skin and skull of young male, figured Plate XXXIX. Mus. Brit. d. Frontal bone and horns exhibited. In my own collection. e. Frontal bone and horns, in my own collection. 2. Notes on rare or little-known Animals now or lately living in the Society's Gardens. By P. L. SCLATER. M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society.-Part IL* Birds. [Received May 13, 1871.] 26. BUCEROS CORRUGATUS, Temm. In my notice of the Hornbills received from Malacca and Sumatra, (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 220), I identified one of them as Buceros gracilis oi Temminck (Pl. Col. 535), having omitted to notice that this is merely the female of B. corrugatus oi Temminck (Pl. Col. 531), as has been pointed out by Schlegel, Mus. de P.-B. Buceros, p. 9. W e have once before had a male specimen of this fine species of Hornbill in the Gardens (see P. Z. S. 1868, p. 261). 27. BUCEROS SUBCYLINDRICUS, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 668, pl. xxxix. Mr. Sharpe has lately furnished me with skins of B. cylindricus and B. fistulator from his collection, which have enabled me * For Part I., Mammals, see antea, p. 221. |