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Show 1885.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 851 December 1, 1885. Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary made the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during November 1885 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November was 105, of which 60 were by presentation, 18 by purchase, 4 by birth, 5 were received in exchange, and 18 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 131. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A pair of Pale Fennec Foxes (Canis pallidus), presented by Capt. J. S. Talbot, 1st Shropshire Light Infantry, November 24th. Mrs. Talbot informs me that these animals were dug out of a hole by Capt. Talbot, while on the march from Suakim to Handoub, when quite small, and were for some weeks fed by hand. The species was described and figured in 1826 (Riipp. Zool. Atlas, tab. xi. p. 33), but appears to be little known, and is new to the collection. The living examples seem to agree with the stuffed specimen in the British Museum. 2. Twelve examples of the Spectacled Salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata) from Italy, presented by Prof. II. H. Giglioli, C.M.Z.S., Nov. 28. New to the collection. Mr. Sclater laid on the table several Birds which had been sent to him for exhibition by Mr. H. Whitely of Woolwich, and called special attention to a Hornbill, the casque of which coincided nearly with that described by Mr. G. R. Gray in 1871 as Buceros casuarinus (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. viii. p. 437, pi. xvii. ; see also Elliot's Mon. Bucerotidae, pi. xxxiv.). Upon this specimen being taken to the British Museum in order to be compared with the type, Mr. Sharpe had pointed out to Mr. Sclater that it was certainly only the young stage of Bycanistes cylindricus. It would seem, therefore, that the supposed Buceros casuarinus had been founded upon the casque of a young specimen of B. cylindricus, of which the feathers at the back of the head had been removed. Mr. W . T. Blanford exhibited on behalf of Capt. C. S. Cumberland the head of a Wild Sheep from Ladak, which he considered to belong to a hybrid between Ovis hodgsoni and O. vignei. The following papers were read :- |