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body and of its bushy beard. He adds that the animal drinks fre- 

 quently, always bending down on its hands, and putting its mouth 

 to the surface of the water, heedless apparently of wetting its beard, 

 and indifferent to the observations of lookers-on : he never saw it 

 take up water in the hollow of its hand, and carry it in this manner 

 to its mouth in order to drink. Its favourite fruit is the apple ; and 

 it does not refuse the pinion of a roasted chicken. Its voice is a 

 weak and chirping whistle, which becomes shrill and loud when the 

 animal is angry. It was obtained from the vicinity of the Orinoco, 

 not far distant from the Rio Negro, in the heart of Guiana. It is 

 known as the Mono Capuchino. 



The Tortoises are referable to the Testudo carbonaria, Spix. 

 The Secretary announced that there had recently been added to the 

 Menagerie a white-crested Cockatoo, Plyctolophus crisiatus, Vieill. ; 

 and a pair of the blue Jay, Garrulus cristatus, Cuv. 



He also stated that there had been acquired for the Menagerie a 

 Rhinoceros of the one-homed species of Continental India. It is said 

 to be about four years old. Its height at the loins, the highest part 

 of the back, is 4 feet 10-A- inches ; its length, from the root of the tail 

 to the tip of the nose, measured in a straight line, is 10 feet 6 inches j 

 its weight is about 26 cwt. 



A specimen was exhibited of the young of the Sandwich Island 

 Goose, Bernicla Sandvicensis, Vig., which was hatched at Knowsley. 

 It was accompanied by the following note from the President, Lord 

 Stanley. 



" Through the kindness of John Reeves, Esq., I received at 

 Knowsley a pair of these birds on the 15th of February, 1834. 

 They did not at first, when turned out on the pond among the other 

 water-fowl, appear to take much notice of each other ; but some 

 workmen being at the time employed about the pond, one of the 

 birds (I think, from recollection, it was the male,) seemed to have 

 formed some sort of attachment to one of the men working. When- 

 ever he was present the goose was always near to him, and whenever 

 absent at his dinner, or when otherwise employed, the bird appeared 

 restless, and gave vent to its solicitude by frequent cries, which as 

 well as the anxiety, always ceased with the reappearance of the 

 workman. 



* The man having frequently occasion to pass through a door, which 

 was obliged to be kept open, it was feared that the attachment of the 

 animal might lead to its following its friend, and that on its exit, it 

 might fall in with and be worried or stolen by vermin, and in conse- 

 quence the pair of geese were confined in one of the divisions adja- 

 cent to, but divided from, the pond, on February 26. 



" Within this small inclosure, in the sheltered half of it, in one 

 corner, stood a small hutch, in which the female on the 5th of March 

 laid her first egg. Till within a few days of that period no alteration 

 took place in their manners, but it then became obvious that the male 

 was jealous of intruders, and would run at and seize them by the 

 trowsers, giving pretty sharp blows with his wings ; but this always 

 ceased if he observed that the female was at some distance, when 

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