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Show 594 THE SECRETARY ON APPITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Nov. 6, November 6, 1894. Sir W. H. FLOWER, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following reports on the additions made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and September, 1894: - The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of June was 113, of which 17 were by birth, 56 by presentation, 16 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 22 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 165. Amongst the principal additions were the following:- 1. Three remarkably large and fine specimens of the Hamadryad Snake of India and Burmah (Ophiophagus elaps), received in exchange and on deposit on the 6th and 8th June1. W e have previously had but one example of this species in the Society's Reptile-house (see P. Z. S. 1875, p. 316). 2. A series of Mammals and Birds from British Central Africa, presented by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C.B., F.Z.S., and carefully brought home by Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., the Naturalist on his staff, on June 28th. It embraces examples of the following species :- English Name. 1 Black Mangabey. 1 Yellow Baboon. 1 Duyker Bok. 1 ^Ethiopian Wart-Hog. 1 Banded Ichneumon. 1 Milky Eagle-Owl. 1 Black-crested Eagle. 2 Green-necked Touracous. 2 Livingstone's Touracous. 1 Marabou Stork. 1 Bell's Cinixys. Scientific Name. Cercocebus alerrimus. Cynocephalus babouin. Cephalophus mergens. Phacochmrus athiopicus. Herpestes fasciatus. Bubo lacteus. Lophoaetus occipitalis. Gallircx chlorochlamys. Piraeus livinystonii. Lcptoptilus crumeniferus. Cinixys belliana. Locality. N. of Lake Tanganyika. Shire Highlands. Upper Shire. Lake Mweru. Shire Highlands. Lower Shire. Shire Highlands. >> >> Lower Shire. Shire Highlands. As regards the fine Black Mangabey in Mr. Johnston's series, I am unable to say while the animal is living whether it should be referred to C. albigena (Gray), C. aterrimus, Oud. (Zool. Gart. xxxi. p. 267,1890), or to a new species, but it certainly belongs to this section of the genus, and is probably referable to C. aterrimus. 1 See Sir Joseph Fayrer's letter in ' Nature,' June 21st, 1894. |