338 Zoological Society : 



all the tailless long-armed Apes, not excepting the Gorilla, are tree- 

 living, fruit-eating animals, living where heasts of prey are not to be 

 found, or out of their reach, if they are found together in the same 

 locality ; so that there is no reason for them to be fierce or vicious, 

 especially as the succulent nature of their food does not render it 

 necessary that they should come to the earth — on which they always 

 walk with difficulty — to obtain fluid. 



At the same time I have no douht they sometimes fight among 

 themselves for their mates, and would defend themselves, or perhaps 

 attack any animal — the larger kinds even man — if brought to bay, 

 and that they would use all their force and cunning to escape from 

 confinement, and thus try to recover their liberty ; but every animal, 

 even the most docile and herbivorous, as the deer, antelope, &c, will 

 do this, and might therefore as well be called vicious and untameable. 



They are most, if not all, of them provided with very loud voices ; 

 and the Siamang is provided with large guttural sacs, which have been 

 supposed to facilitate the production of these sounds ; but as M. Du- 

 vaucel did not find them in the ' TFou-Wou," 1 which also emits a 

 fearfully loud voice, he infers that the bags do not affect the sound. 

 Some of the American Monkeys are called Howlers on account of the 

 sounds they emit, which in these animals are said to be produced by 

 a peculiarity in the form of the larynx. 



The Ourang and Siamang are seldom found far from the sea ; and 

 I have been informed by the Gaboon traders that all the Gorillas 

 they have seen have been taken near the coast. 



The following Postscript, bearing date Sept. 25, has been forwarded 

 to us by Dr. Gray. — Ed. Ann. Nat. Hist. 



A missionary who has resided many years in the Gaboon states that 

 young Gorillas are often taken by the natives, who bring them alive 

 into the settlement, that he has had several living in his house at 

 different times, that they were cpiite as tame and as tractable as the 

 young Chimpanzees, and that he never saw them walk erect or at- 

 tempt to attack any one. The natives also often bring in the dead 

 bodies of the older ones ; for they are fond of hunting them in the 

 forest near the sea ; and as soon as they get them, they hasten with 

 them across the river to the settlement to sell them : they fetch a 

 low price ; the largest which he ever saw was bought for 20 shillings, 

 and they are generally sold for much less. 



June 11, 1861.— Dr. J. E. Gray, V.P., in the Chair. 

 Notice of a Stag from Northern China sent by Mr. 



SwiNHOE TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. By Dr. JOHN 



Edward Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., etc 



Mr. Swinhoe has most kindly sent to us three examples of a Deer 

 which were shot in the Gardens of the Summer Palace at Pekin in 

 the winter of 1860. 



There is a skin of an adult male with horns, of an adult female, and 

 of a younger animal. 



The male agrees in most particulars with the account of the Cervus 



