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zum zweiten Male als neu beschrieben. - Ich erlaube mir hier gleich 

 darauf hinzuweisen, damit der Name nicht erst unnöthigerweise in 

 Zool. Jahresberichte etc. aufgenommen wird. 

 Kiel, den 11. November 1890. 



III. Mittheilimgen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



4tli November, 1890. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, 

 July, August, September, and October, 1890, and called special attention 

 to several of them. Among these were a young male example of the Wild 

 Cattle of Chartley Park, Staffordshire, presented by Earl Ferrers ; a Water- 

 Buck Antelope [Cobiis ellipsiprymnus) from the Somali Coast, presented by 

 Mr. George S. Mackenzie, F.Z.S. ; an example of the Horned Screamer 

 [Palamedea cornuta)^ obtained by purchase; and a young female of Speke's 

 Antelope [Tragelaphus Spekii), presented by Mr. James A. NicoUs. — The 

 Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Dr. A. B. Meyer, F.M.Z.S., a coloured 

 photograph of a singular variety of the Rose-coloured Pastor [Pastor roseus) 

 with a red head, obtained near Sophia ; and read a note from Dr. Meyer on 

 this subject. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S. , made some remarks on an 

 early reference to the Syrian Newt [Molge vittata) in Shaw's , Travels', 

 published in 1738. — Mr. J. J. Lister, F.Z.S., gave an account of his 

 recent visit to the Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific, and exhibited specimens 

 of the Birds and Eggs obtained there. — Mr. Smith Woodward exhibited 

 and made remarks upon the calvarium of an adult male Saiga tatarica from 

 the Pleistocene deposits of the Thames Valley. The specimen had been ob- 

 tained by Dr. J. R. Leeson from recent excavations in Orleans Road, 

 Twickenham, and was the first trace of this Antelope discovered in Britain. 



— Mr. W. T. Blanford read a paper on the Gaur [Bos gaurns) and its 

 allies, with especial reference to the exhibition of the first living Gaur ever 

 brought to Europe in the Society's Gardens. He described the characters and 

 geographical range of the three allied species of flat-horned taurine Bovines 



— the Gaur or Sladang (Bison of Indian sportsmen), the Gayal or Mithan 

 [Bos /rontalis), and the Banteng [Bos sotidaicus); and he discussed the question 

 whether B. frontalis is ever found in the wild state. — A communication 

 was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, C.M.Z.S., containing the description of a 

 new species of Squirrel from the Philippine Islands, which he proposed to 

 call Sciurus Cagsi. — Mr. R. Lydekker, F.Z.S., read a paper on a Cer- 

 vine Jaw from pleistocene deposits in Algeria, which appeared to indicate 

 the former existence in that country of a large Deer allied to Cervus cash- 

 mirianus. For this form Mr. Lydekker proposed the name Cervus algériens. — 

 A communication was read from Dr. A. Günther, F.R.S., on the skull of 

 the East-African Reed-buck. In this paper Dr. Günther described the skull 

 of an Antelope obtained by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter in Masai Land, which he 

 identified with Ccrvicapra bohor (Rüppell) from Abyssinia. He pointed out 

 the difierences from the skull of the South-African species, for which the 

 name Cervicapra redunca (Pallas) is generally employed. — Mr. P. Chalmers 



