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Show 2\2 MR. G. A- BOULENGER ON THE REPTILES AND [Feb. 4, February 4, 1896. Dr. A. GUNTHER, F.B.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions Society's Menagerie during the month of January:- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January were 54 in number. Of these 37 were acquired by presentation, 12 by purchase, and 5 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 85. The f oho wing acquisitions are of special interest:- (1) A young male Manatee from the Bio Purus, Amazons, purchased Jan. 4th. This animal was brought to Liverpool, from Para, by Capt. E. J. Collings of the S.S. ' Obidense,' of the Bed Cross Line. It appears, so far as I can tell from examination of the living animal, to belong to the Amazonian species distinguished by Natterer many years ago as Manatus inunguis, and upon which Dr. Clemens Hartlaub has published an excellent memoir'. The living Manatees previously received by the Society have been four in number, namely:- 1. $ * purchased Aug. 6th, 1875, from Demerara. See P. Z. S. 1875, p. 529. 2. S, purchased March 2nd, 1889. See P. Z. S. 1889, p. 160. 3. 2 ad. 1 Presented by Sir Henry A. Blake, Oct. 19th, 1893. 4. c? jr. j From Jamaica. See P. Z. S. 1893, p. 691. (2) Two young King Penguins (Aptenodytes pennanti) in down plumage, from the Macquarie Islands, south of New Zealand, brought home by Capt. C. S. Milward, of the S.S. ' Otarama,' and purchased Jan. 7th. Capt. Milward kindly informs us that he received these birds in New Zealand on Nov. 1st, 1895, and that they had been obtained in the Macquarie Islands about Oct. 15th, having been caught only a few days previously. It was stated generally in those islands that the King Penguins are hatched there at the latter end of December or beginning of January, so that these birds are probably about a year old and will shortly moult into their adult plumage. The following papers were read:- 1. Second Report on the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his Expedition to Lake Rudolf. By G. A. B O U L E N G E R , F.R.S. [Keceived January 7, 1896.] (Plates VII. & VIII.) The present list refers to the second and concluding portion of Dr. Donaldson Smith's collection. The first instalment, from 1 " Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Manatus-Arten," Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 1 (1886). |