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Show 308 MR. C. BOCK ON CAPRICORNIS SUMATRENSIS. [Apr. 1, April 1, 1879. Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1879 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 63, of which 28 were by presentation, 3 by birth, 22 by purchase, 7 were received on deposit, and 3 by exchange. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removal, was 98. The most noticeable additions during the month of March were as follows :- 1. A young male of the Mule Deer of North America (Cariacus macrotus), obtained from Dr. J. D. Caton, of Ottawa, Illinois, U. S. A., and received March 12. Through the kind intercession of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Judge Caton has been induced to send us our first example of this peculiar Deer, of which we may hope shortly to receive hinds also, by the aid of kindly promised assistance from the same influential quarter. 2. A male Sumatran Rhinoceros, deposited March 20th. This is the first male of the Sumatran Rhinoceros that we have yet received, the examples previously exhibited in the Society's Gardens having been all of the female sex. In general appearance this specimen presents all the characters of the Rhinoceros sumatrensis as distinguished from R. lasiotis. The Secretary read the following extracts from a letter addressed him by Mr. Carl Bock, dated Padang Panjang, Sumatra, Jan. 24, 1879. " The Capricornis sumatrensis, or c Mountain-Antelope ' as you very properly call it, I have been on the look-out for ever since I left Padang; I was told by several there it has never reached Europe alive. It is sparingly distributed over the mountains here in the highlands proper; the best district is Lolo, where I spent more than one month, and had two men all the time in the most inaccessible parts purposely to catch some ' Kambing-utan,' as the Malays call the animal. I succeeded in getting a young male of perhaps 10 to 12 months. I have named him ' Lolo.' I give you an extract from what I have noted down about the animal. "The 'Kambing-utan ' or wild Goat, when I first saw the animal, struck me as not being like a Goat at all; his form and outline more resemble that of a young Reindeer. He is a young male of perhaps ten months to a year old ; his colour is jet-black ; he has long coarse hair, and a mane of stiff hair of a whitish grey colour; the length of the hairs ranging from 3 to 4 inches. His ears are thinly covered inside with white hairs, on the outer side of brown colour, mixed with black ; the ears are remarkably long and erect; when he listens he bends them quite forward past the horns; the latter are |