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Show 92 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE [Peb. 6, February 6, 1894. Sir W. H. PLOWER, K.C.B., LL.D., P.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1894. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January was 78, of which 30 were by presentation, 2 by birth, 34 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 8 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 100. Amongst these attention should be specially called to a young male Ounce, or Snow-Leopard (Felis undo), obtained by purchase from Mr. J. S. Mackay, of Dunbar House, Kullu, Punjab, being the animal described in the letter from that gentleman read on the 7th of December last (see P. Z. S. 1893, p. 692). Mr. Sclater called attention to a fine mounted specimen of the River-hog of Madagascar (Potamochcerus edwarclsi) from the Tring Museum, lent for exhibition by the Hon. W . Rothschild, P.Z.S., and remarked that three distinct species of this well-marked Ethiopian genus (see Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 301) of Suida? were now known:- 1. Potamochcerus africanus, which is believed to range from the Cape throughout Eastern Africa up to Abyssinia, where it appears as Nyctochcerus hassama of Heuglin (Ant. u. Biiff. Suppl. p. 7; et Pitz. Sitzungsb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Bd. liv. Abth. i. p. 586). 2. Potamochcerus penicillatus of West Africa (well figured in Wolf and Sclater's Zoological Sketches, vol. i. pi. xxix.), which, as well as P. africanus, has been frequently exhibited alive in our Gardens (see List of Animals, 1883, p. 183). 3. Potamochcerus edwarclsi (see P. Z. S. 1875, p. 64, pi. xii.) from Madagascar (at once known by its black under surface), of which a specimen is now before us. Mr. J. T. Last, by whom the specimen exhibited had been obtained, had kindly furnished the following field-notes on this species:- " Of the Wild Boars in Madagascar there are two, perhaps three, species. The largest (Potamochcerus edwarclsi) is said to inhabit the upland forest regions; while a smaller species lives near the coast. I was told by Bcfanatriki, an Antinosi king, that there is also another species, much shorter in body than the two mentioned above and of a white colour. I suggested to him that it might be a white hog run wild, but he insisted that it is not a ' kiisu' (domesticated pig) but a ' lainbu,' 'lambunala' (a wild boar). I cannot vouch for the truth of his statement because I have not seen the animal, but the king evidently believed in the information he was giving me. " It is very difficult to say much about the habits and manners of |