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Show 176 ANIMALS COMMENSAL OR PARASITIC L^Pr- April 6, 1886. Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.I)., 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 1886 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 121. Of these 6 were by birth, 58 by presentation, 11 by purchase, 1 by exchange and 45 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 127. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A second specimen of the Rough-billed Pelican of North America (Pelecanus trachyrhynchus) \ purchased March 2nd. 2. An example of the White-tailed Ichneumon (Herpestes albi-cauda) from Lamoo, East Africa, presented by F. J. Jackson, Esq., F.Z.S., March 4th. The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of J. B. Martin, Esq., F.Z.S., a large tusk of the Indian Elephant (Elephas indicus) belonging to the executors of the late Charles Reade, of which tbe length was stated to be 6 feet, and the weight over 100 pounds. The tusk was stated to have belonged to a " rogue Elephant" which had only one tusk, and which had been killed at Goruckpore in 1836, when the late Charles Reade was magistrate there. Mr. Sclater exhibited the heads and horns of two species of Antelopes received by Lord Walsingham from Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S., having been obtained in the vicinity of Lamoo, East Africa. One of these belong to an adult specimen of Strepsiceros imberbis, Blyth ; the two others to Damalis senegalensis, which, so far as Mr. Sclater knew, had not been previously obtained in this district. Strepsiceros imberbis had been already met with as far south as the Juba River on this coast2. Dr. II. Woodward exhibited specimens of animals commensal or parasitic in the shell of Meleagrina margaritifera, the Pearl-mussel, from the north coast of Australia, and read the following notes :- " The Pearl-shell fishery is now a recognized and important branch of the commerce of Western Australia, and also of Queensland and South Australia, which Colonies own the rights of the northern shores of that vast continent. " Mr. Thomas Harry Haynes has given me much interesting information regarding the pearl-shell fishery carried on by him and 1 For notice of previous specimen see P. Z. S. 1883, p. 463, plate xlvi 2 See P. Z. S. 1884, p. 45. |
