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Show 1 3 0 SHORT-HORNED BUFFALOES IN THE ANTWERP GARDENS. [J u n e 7 , 3. Common Pheasant X Amherst's Pheasant (Thaumalea amherstire). Male. 4. Common Pheasant x Amherst's Pheasant. Old female. 5. Cheer Pheasant (Ph. wallichii) X Common Pheasant (? Elliot's Pheasant). Male. 6 . Cheer Pheasant X Common Pheasant. Male. 7. Silver Pheasant (Gennceus nycthemerus) X Elliot's Pheasant. Male. 8. Lineated Kaleege (G. lineatus) X Common Pheasant. Male. 9. Lineated Kaleege X Japanese Pheasant (Ph. versicolor). Male. 10. Cheer Pheasant x ? Himalayan Monaul (Lophophorus impeyanus). Male. Dr. F. D. Drewitt, F.Z.S., exhibited two fine antlers of the North-African Red Deer (Cervus elaphus bctrbarus) and made the following remarks :- " These antlers were obtained in the high forest-land of cork, oak, and cedar, extending far inland on the borders of Tunis and Algeria. " One of the most interesting links between the fauna of North Africa and Europe is this Red Deer living among lions and panthers. " Barbary-Deer antlers differ from typical Red-Deer antlers in having no second tine. This seems a constant characteristic. In other heads seen in Algeria it was absent. It is absent in a specimen from Algeria in the Cambridge Museum; also in two Menagerie specimens in the Natural History Museum (one from the Gardens and one given by the Duke of Bedford). " Few Englishmen have seen a wild Barbary Stag. Sir Harry Johnston is one of the few. He reports that twenty-four years ago it was fairly common throughout the forest. Now, though protected by the French Government, it is rare ; forest fires and poaching Arabs have almost exterminated it-but a few remain. Fortunately a wild stag among trees, facing its enemy, is sometimes almost invisible at a few feet, the antlers exactly copying not only the form of a branch but also the bark on it." Dr. Drewitt also exhibited a pair of horns (15| inches in length) of Loder's Gazelle (Gazella leptoceros) from South Algeria. Some photographs, sent by Dr. Graham Renshaw, F.Z.S., of a pair of Short-horned Buffaloes in the Antwerp Zoological Gardens, were exhibited, and the following note upon them, contributed by Dr. Renshaw, was read :- " The difficulty experienced by naturalists in separating the |
