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Show No. 1. ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. January 19th, 1904. G. A. BOULENGER, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The SECRETARY read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during November and December 1903, and called special attention to a fine young male Orang Outang (Simict satyrus) obtained by purchase on November 27th. The SECRETARY exhibited two skins of the Transvaal Bustard (Trachelotis barrovii) sent to him by Capt. R. Crawshay, F.Z.S., who had shot the birds at Piet Retief, in the Transvaal. From examination of the contents of the stomachs sent home by Capt. Crawshay, he was able to state that these Bustards devoured ants in large numbers. He also made remarks on the specific differences between T. barrovii and T. senegalensis. Mr. R. I. POCOCK, the Superintendent of the Gardens, exhibited two photographs, taken by Mr. J. flblliott Darling, F.Z.S., of a young hybrid Waterbuck, about three months old, between Kobus defassa unctuosus 3 and K. ellip>siprymnus $, bred in tho Society's Gardens. In general colour it favoured the dam rather than the sire, being decidedly less rufous in tint than the latter, although not so grizzly black as the former. There was, however,, practically no trace of the white elliptical rump-mark so characteristic of K. ellipsiprymnus, which indicated reversion to the ancestral type of colour. Mr. OLDFIELD THOMAS, F.R.S., exhibited a Gazelle obtained by Mr. A. E. Butter in N.E. Africa, which he considered to form a new subspecies of Gazella soemmerringii. It was defined as follows:- GAZELLA S. BUTTERI, subsp. n. General characters of G. soemmerringii and berberana, but * This Abstract is published by the Society at 3 Hanover Square, London, W., on the Tuesday following the date of Meeting to which it refers. It will be issued, free of extra charge, to all Fellows who subscribe to the Publications, along with the ' Proceedings'; but it m a y be obtained on the day of publication at the price of Sixpence, or, if desired, sent post-free for the sum of Six Shillings per annum, payable in advance. |
