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Show 2 2 6 MR. SCLATER ON A PERSIAN IBEX. [N o v . 4, The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of August were 141 in number. Of these 62 were acquired by presentation, 2 by purchase, 8 were born in the Gardens, and 64 were received on deposit and 5 in exchange. The number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 160. The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of September was 125, of which 67 were by presentation, 1 by purchase, 6 were born in the Gardens, and 51 were received on deposit. The number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 138. Mr. Sclater exhibited a photograph of a Persian Ibex (text-fig. 55), obtained in tire hills not far from Shiraz (and probably Text-fig. 55. Persian Ibex. (Taken from a photograph.) |