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Show 580 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Nov. 15, The latter (originally received from Oran, Algeria) is no doubt of unusually small dimensions. The "Queen's Ostrich" was procured by Mr. Williams, of Sierra Leone, during a recent expedition to the dominions of King Samory (or Samadou), about 700 miles in the interior from Freetown \ in the basin of the Upper Niger, for Mr. Alfred L. Jones of Oaklands, Aigburth (at whose expense the expedition was organized), and offered by Mr. Jones as a present to Her Majesty The Queen, who was graciously pleased to deposit it in the Society's Gardens. The colour of the naked skin on the neck and legs of this bird is reddish. In the Somali bird (Struthio molybdophanes, Reichen.2) it will be recollected that these parts are bluish. But the various geographical subspecies of the Ostrich have not yet been properly discriminated. 2. A specimen of what appears to be a new and undescribed Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, obtained by Dr. Joseph A. Moloney at Chindi, on the Lower Zambesi, when returning to this country in company with Stairs's expedition. It is at once recognizable, as will be seen from the coloured figure by Mr. P. Smit, which I exhibit, by the strongly marked chestnut-red patches above the ears. I propose to call it CERCOPITHECUS STAIRSI, sp. nov. (Plate XL.) Supra ochraceus, arlubus extus einereis; dorso summo et pileo cinereis, hoc lineis niyris variegato et flavicante lavato macula magna supra-auriculari utrinque castanea; frontis pilis extantibus; auribus nudis; facie nigricante; subtus lactes-centi- albus, caucla einereo-nigricante, ad basin pallidiore, ad apicem obscuriore ; crassitie C. petauristae. Hab. ad ripas fl. Zambezi inf. Obs. Species C. albigulari frontis pilis erectis forsan affinis, sed macula auriculari castanea primo visu distinguenda. I propose to dedicate this distinct species to the memory of Lieut. W . Grant Stairs, of the Royal Engineers, who died at Chindi, at the mouth of the Zambesi, on June 9th, 1892, on his return from his expedition to Katanga. The typical specimen was obtained from the delta of the Zambesi by Mr. Hellier, the British Central- African Company's Agent at Chindi, and given to Dr. J. A. Moloney, one of the surviving members of Stairs's expedition, who brought it home and presented it to this Society. 3. A large series of specimens of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, brought back by Mr. Frank Finn, F.Z.S., on his recent return from a zoological excursion to Zanzibar. These animals were given into Mr. Finn's charge by General Mathews, C.M.G., Dr. W . H. B. MacDonald, Mr. R. MacAllister, Mr. F. Pordage, and other Correspondents of the Society at Zanzibar and Mombasa. Amongst 1 For an account of Mr. Williams's expedition see Eev. Franc, et Expl. xvi. p 395. '2 J.'f. O. 1883, p. 399. |
