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Show PROCEEDINGS OP THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OP THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 17, 1893. Sir W. H. FLOWER, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1892:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December was 43, of which 18 were by presentation, 23 by purchase, and 2 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 140. Mr. F. C. Selous, C.M.Z.S., exhibited the skull of an Antelope believed to be a hybrid between the Sassaby (Bubalis lunata) and the Hartebeest (B. caama), which he had transmitted to the British Museum in 1890, and read the following letter which he had addressed to Dr. Giinther on the subject, dated Tati River, Matabeleland, March 23rd, 1890 :- "I am sending you the skull of a very curious animal which would puzzle you immensely if I did not tell you what it was. It is the skull of a male cross-bred animal, between a Tsessebe Antelope (Bubalis lunata) and a Hartebeest (B. cccccma), the father probably being one of the former Antelopes and the mother one of the latter. This animal was shot a few miles from here, between the Tati and Shashi rivers, by m y old friend Cornelius vau Rooyen, the well-known Boer hunter. You will see tbat the skull of this animal closely resembles that of a Hartebeest, whilst the horns are neither like those of a Hartebeest nor those of a Tsessebe, but partake of the characters of both, standing nearly straight up from the skull PROC. ZOOL. Soc--1893, No. I. 1 |