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5. NANDINIA BINOTATA (Reinw.). 
A flat skin. 
6. Genetra apyssinica, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 35. pl. 11. 
An example of this species was obtained alive and brought to 
England by Mr. Monteiro. 
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7. GENETTA 
Flat skins of a second species, apparently a true Genetta, for which 
I am unable to find a name. 
8. Mus ratrtus, Linn. 
The Common Black Rat of Europe is, as Mr. Monteiro informs 
me, very abundant in the coast region of Angola, 
9. Manis TRICUSPIS, Sund. 
Manis multi-scutata, Gray ; Fraser, Zool. Typ. pl. 28. 
Mr. Monteiro has furnished me with the following note on this 
Manis :— 
“Abundant around Bembe (130 miles inland, West Coast of 
Africa, lat. 7' 22" S.). Said by the natives, to whom it is well known 
there as well as on the coast, to cause considerable damage to the 
plantations, by grubbing up the Mandioca roots, ground-nuts, &c., 
very likely when in search of the ants and larve said to constitute 
its food. The roots would very easily be exposed by this animal in 
the search for its food, as they are planted in hillocks of loose earth 
thrown up on the surface of the ground. 
‘The animal from which this skin was obtained was kept alive in 
a tub, and fed on ants and larve, for a fortnight, when it died, and 
the skin was sent to me. 
“Its death was very probably due to its having been injured by 
the negroes that captured it,—these having great fear of all animals 
and reptiles, and their first impulse being to give everything alive 
they may see a crack on the head with a’stick. 
**T have often seen the skins in the negro huts, as also in Loanda 
on the coast, the scales being esteemed by the natives as a ‘fetish’ 
or charm.” 
4. Notes on Two Strrvutuious Birps NOW LIVING IN THE 
Society’s Garpens. By Puiuip Lutuey Scuater, M.A., 
SECRETARY TO THE SOCIETY. 
At the last meeting of this Society I announced that we were ex- 
pecting to receive two additional examples of Struthious birds for 
the Menagerie, which I had reason to believe would prove to be 
distinct from any of the seven then existing in it. I now have the 
pleasure of infurming the meeting that these birds have arrived in 
