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Show 1880.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 451 This little-known species was established by me in 1870 * (upon a specimen living in the Society's Gardens). Mr. Van Bemmelin, of the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam, having two pairs of it, has kindly parted with one pair in our favour. 2. A young male Liihdorf's Deer (Cervus luehdorfi), received May 30th. Of the discovery of this Deer I spoke at the last meeting of the Society (see p. 420). The authorities of the Gardens at Hamburgh have kindly allowed us to acquire one of the young males born in their garden for this Society's collection. I take this opportunity of offering some remarks upon two species previously received, which (as must be often the case with living animals) seem to have been wrongly determined. A male Black Lemur, purchased Nov. 25th, 1878, was entered on the list of additions 2 as Lemur macaco, that being the only known species of Black Lemur. In June last we received of Mr. Badger a fine pair of the true Lemur macaco (male black, female = 2>. leucomystax), and our Superintendent's excellent eye immediately told him that we had here to do with two distinct species. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Head of Lemur macaco. Head of L. nigerrimus. The first arrival is a larger and more intensely black animal, with a raised crest of short upstanding hair on its head. Moreover the ear-conch is naked, and not furnished with tufts of hair as in Lemur macaco, from which it is certainly distinct (see woodcut). I propose to name it for the present Lemur nigerrimus, although it may possibly turn out to be a black variety of some known species, with the following characters :- LEMUR NIGERRIMUS, sp. nov. Ater unicolor; pilei cristati pilis extantibus; auriculis nudis. Long, tota corp. 16, caudce 20 poll. Angl. In August last year we purchased of a London dealer 18 examples of a Duck from Australia, which we supposed to be Anas punctata (sive castanea) in winter costume, as they nearly resembled the figure of the female given by Mr. Gould (Birds of Australia, vol. vii. pl. xi.). They were accordingly thus entered in our 1 P. Z. S. 1870, p. 279, t. xviii. 2 See P. Z. S. 1878, p. 1016. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1880, No. XXX. 30 |