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Show 332 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Apr. 4, The specimen in question is said to have been obtained "between the Philippines and Sandwich Islands"-a considerable extension to the range of the species so far as it is at present known. In concluding m y remarks on a family whose members are principally Arctic in their habitat, it would be a great omission if I failed to acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor Newton's comprehensive remarks on the Arctic fauna in these ' Proceedings,' in 'The Ibis,' and in the 'Arctic Manual.' The whole available information respecting the northern range of the Skuas is given in a condensed form, accompanied by most important references; and to these originals, especially to the paper on the Birds of Spitsbergen in 'The Ibis,' 1865, I would refer those who require more details than I have thought it necessary to give in the present article. April 4, 1876. Prof. Newton, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1876 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 91. Of these, 65 were acquired by presentation, 16 by purchase, 3 by birth, and 7 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 111. The most noticeable additions during the month of March were as follows ;- 1. A male Brown Monkey (Macacus brunneus, Anderson), transmitted home to us from Siam as a present by Mr. T. G. Fermor Hesketh, F.Z.S. This Monkey was presented to Mr. Hesketh by the King of Siam, and is, no doubt, from that country. It agrees generally with Dr. Anderson's figure (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 203, pl. xii.), but is rather darker in colour. Dr. Anderson tells me he has now come to the conclusion that, in spite of what he stated (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 652), his Macacus brunneus and M. arctoides of Is. Geoffr. are referable to the same species. Dr. Anderson also takes Blyth's view *, that M. speciosus of Geoffr. St.-Hil. et F. Cuv. properly applies to this Siamese Monkey, and not to the Japanese species figured under that name by Temminck. This, however, though probable, I may observe, cannot be positively proved, as the name was established on a drawing, and there is no existing type. I think, therefore, it would be better to use Macacus arctoides (as the oldest name that can be certainly attributed to this animal), and to call the Japanese species, which I have lately figured (P. Z. S. 1875, pl. xlvii.), M.fuscatus (as proposed by Blyth /. a. ci), rejecting the term speciosus altogether. * " Mammals of Burmah,'' in J. A. S. B. No. i. 1875, p. 6. |