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Show .] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 355 May 4, 1880. 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 April 1880 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April was 82, of which 33 were by presentation, 5 by birth, 36 by purchase, 7 were received on deposit, and 1 in exchange. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 69. The most noticeable additions during the month of April were as follows:- 1. An example of the Short-toed Perameles (Perameles obesula, Gould's Mammals of Australia, vol. i. pl. 12), purchased April 15th, being the first example of this Marsupial which we have received for the Menagerie. 2. A young male Cape Hunting-dog (Lycaon pictus), presented by C. Ernest Pope, Esq., of Alice, Victoria East, South Africa, and received April 19th. Mr. Pope informs me, writing on March 1st, that the specimen was then, he believed, about ten months old, and had been fed almost entirely upon the small intestines of sheep. It had been captured when quite young and brought up with some Pointer puppies, with whom it had lived on familiar terms. The only previous example of this animal received by the Society of late years was that acquired in 1871 (see P. Z. S. 1871, p. 298). 3. A Koala or native Bear of xlustralia (Phascolarctus cinereus), Koala, reduced from a drawing by Mr. T. W . Wood, F.Z.S., published in ' The Field ' of May 22nd, 1880. purchased April 28, being the first example of this peculiar Marsu- PROC. ZOOL. Soc-18S0, No. XXIV. 24 -v. |