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December 11th, 1860. 
Dr. J. E. Gray, V.P., in the Chair. 
Mr. Sclater called the attention of the meeting to an important 
addition tothe Society’s Menagerie made by the recent accession of 
a fine young male Babirussa (Badirussa alfurus) (Mammalia, Pl. 
LXXXIII.), received in exchange from the Zoological Society of 
Rotterdam. The species of the Suide now living in the Society’s 
Gardens were thus increased to nine in number, being undoubtedly 
the finest series of the group ever yet brought together ; namely :— 
. Sus scrofa, ex Europa. 
, var. barbarus, ex Afr. bor. 
-—. vittatus, ex Java. 
. Potamocherus africanus, ex Afr, merid, 
penicillatus, ex Afr. occ. 
. Babirussa alfurus, ex ins. Celebes. 
. Dicotyles torquatus, ex Am. centr. et merid. 
3 albirostris, ex Am. merid. 
9. Phacocherus ethiopicus, ex Afr. merid. 
One of. the female Peccaries (D. torquatus) had lately produced 
a young one,—the first occasion (so it was believed) that this animal 
had bred in confinement in England, 
DONA oR Oh 
Mr. A. Newton informed the meeting of the important fact, that 
a recent discovery of bones, supposed to be those of a Dodo (Didus), 
had been made in the Mauritius by Dr. Ayres, which would be trans- 
mitted to the British Museum. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Nore on Ovis pou oF Biyts. By P. L. ScuaTer, M.A., 
SECRETARY TO THE SOCIETY. 
I beg leave to call the attention of the Society to a very fine pair 
of the horns of the Wild Sheep of Pamir, Ovis polii, Blyth (P. Z.S. 
1840, p. 62, and Ann. N. H. vii. p. 196), belonging to Major W. E. 
Hay, F.Z.S. This is one of the several pairs brought back by 
Lieut. Wood in 1838 on his return from his journey to the sources 
of the Oxus, when detached from Sir Alexander Burnes’s mission to 
Cabool. Having been unaccountably neglected and thrown out into 
the open air at Loodianeh * to perish, they were rescued by Col. 
Stedman in 1843, and presented to Major Hay, who brought them 
home on his return from India in 1858. 
~ There being, I believe, only two pairs of the horns of this magni- 
* “A skeleton of this animal and several complete crania were deposited, I 
believe, at Loodianeh, with other specimens obtained by Sir A. Burnes’s mission.” 
—Wood’s Journey to the Source of the River Oxus, p. 193 (note). : 
