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Show 1895.1 RECENT EXPEDITION TO BBITISH OENTEAL AFEICA. 339 was then manifest that it was indeed a young specimen, having the molars still undeveloped, and that it was really a young Cercocebus albigena. A n d under that name I have registered it in m y ' Catalogue systematique des Mammiferes,' 1892, p. 26. " The reason why I write you the above is that I read (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 594) that you were unable to say whether a living Monkey in your Gardens from British Central Africa should be referred to G. albigena, to C. aterrimus, Oudemans, or to- a new species. I think that your specimen is either a new species or (as C. edbigena=C. aterrimus) perhaps a young C. albigena" 2 Mr. J. H . Gurney, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on an example of Alcedo beavani obtained in Ceylon by Mr. A. L. Butler. Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., gave an account of some of the principal animals that he had collected and noticed during his recent expedition to Mount Ruwenzori, in British Central Africa. Mr. Scott Elliot's remarks were as follows :- The object of m y expedition was almost wholly botanical, and I must begin by stating frankly that I have no right whatever to call myself either a zoologist or a sportsman. During my whole expedition I was entirely alone, and I had neither sufficient alcohol nor traps to make extensive collections. Therefore I hope that you will pardon the crudeness and insufficiency of what I have to say. The most important animal on Ruwenzori is, of course, the Elephant (Elephas africanus). O n Ruwenzori itself the Elephant is almost always to be seen between a spot called Chukarongo on the eastern side and a few miles south of Kasagamas. On one occasion I saw a hundred together, but usually they go about in small herds of from three to seven or eight in number. They ascend the Nyamwamba and Mubuka valley to about 5600 feet, but not higher, more, I think, on account of the steepness of the mountain-sides above this level than for any other reason. They also occur on the Nyamgassu River, which enters the Albert Edward beyond the Salt Lake, but not, so far as I could tell, on the west side of Ruwenzori; though they are said to be in great abundance on the other side of the Semliki River-which is part of the rich ivory country belonging to the Wanyuema which seems to extend down to at least 5° S. lat. A short time before m y arrival a party of Wanyuema had called at the Salt Lake to ask if they might settle and send their ivory to the coast, vid Uganda. Unfortunately, no European was there, and before any reply could be sent from Uganda the trader, Mr. Stokes, with an enormous caravan, passed up the west bank of the Semliki and probably carried off all the ivory there. It will 1 [Our specimen of this rare Monkey is since dead, and the skin and skull have been deposited in the British Museum. I agree with Dr. Jentink that it is probably not different from C. albigena.-P. L. S.] |