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Blackbh-tl, albino, Turdus Merula, Linn., rar. 

 Sparrow, albino. Passer domestictts, Briss., var. 

 Red-crested Cardinal. Loxia Dominicana, Linn. 

 Blue-headed Parrot. Psittacus cceruleocephalus, Lath. 

 Red-sided Parrot. Psittacus Sinensis, Linn. 

 Black-throated Pigeon. Cohtmha Capensis, Linn. 

 Cyrus Crane. Grus Antigone. 

 White-masked Duck. Anas riduata, Lath. 



With these additions to the Lists contained in the previous 

 Reports of the Council, the total number of species of Mam- 

 malia which has been exhibited in the Menagerie, up to 

 the present time, is 227, and that oi Birds is 310. 



The Council are now looking forward with considerable 

 interest to the completion of an attempt in which the Society 

 is engaged for the importation of several 



Giraffes, 

 Avhich they hope to see added to the Menagerie in a very 

 few weeks. In the earlier years of the Society's existence 

 the acquisition of this singular and rare animal was among 

 the most important objects to which the attention of the 

 Council was directed, and they made many inquiries as to 

 the most probable means of effecting it, and even named a 

 price which would be paid for one or two of them on their 

 beinty delivered, in good health, at the Society's Gardens. In 

 1833 the inquiries were again resumed through Mr. Bour- 

 chier, of Malta, to whose valuable aid on numerous occa- 

 sions the Society is almost incessantly indebted. Through 

 his intervention, and the kindness of Col. Campbell, His 

 Majesty's Consul General for Egypt, an arrangement was 

 made towards the close of that year with M. Thibaut, who 

 was then at Cairo, and who agreed to proceed to Nubia 

 for the purpose of procuring Giraffes on the Society's 

 account. The terms of his engagement imposed on him the 

 whole risk of the undertaking previously to the delivery of 



