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Show 326 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CONTINENTAL MENAGERIES. [June 2, two forms. The female skulls being more or less in all mammals, but especially in Ruminants, more conservative than the skulls of males, the resemblance of the Siwalik skull to a more generalized type, as represented by the Helladotherium skull of Pikermi, is not more than we might have anticipated. June 2, 1891. Prof. Flower, C.B., 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 M a y 1891 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May 1891 were 163 in number. Of these, 96 were acquired by presentation, 41 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 10 were bom in the Gardens, and 12 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 89. Amongst the former special attention may be called to the following:- 1. A female Water-buck Antelope (Cobus ellipsiprymnus) from British East Africa, presented by George L. Mackenzie, Esq., F.Z.S. This is a very acceptable arrival, as making a pair with the male of the same Antelope presented by Mr. Mackenzie in November last (see P. Z. S. 1890, p. 589). 2. Three Blanford's Rats (Mus blanfordi) from the Shevaroy Hills, Madras, presented by Mr. W . L. Sclater, F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. This species is new to the Collection. Mr. Sclater made some remarks on animals which he had noticed during a recent visit to the Zoological Gardens of Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and The Hague. In the Jardin d'Acclimatation at Paris the colony of breeding Penguins, which Mr. Sclater had also inspected in the summer of 1890, was of special interest to the ornithologist. Twenty-two examples of the Black-footed Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) were kept in an open wire enclosure. Many of these had paired and nested in some wooden dog-kennels which had been placed in the enclosure. Last year five birds had been bred, and only one of these had been lost. Of the three Sea-Lions living in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, one adult male appeared to be referable to Otaria stelleri and not to O. gillespii, the species usually brought from the Pacific coast of America, from which it seemed to be distinguishable externally by the sudden elevation of the front part of the cranium. But this determination would require confirmation after the death of the specimen. A remarkable hybrid Pheasant in this Garden was said to have |