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THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ZOOLOGICAL SPECIMENS 



FOR THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY.* 



Mr. Benstead having returned to the Colony as Agent to the 

 Zoological Society of London, to collect living specimens for their 

 Menagerie, hereby gives notice that he will pay handsome Premiums for 

 all kinds of Animals and Birds. Thus, for a fine healthy pair (Male and 

 Female) of Elephants he will give the sum of £180 ; the same sum for a 

 similar pair of Rhinoceroses ; for a Zebra, £20 ; for a Young Bull Eland, 

 £15 ; and for other Animals equally liberal Sums, according to their value. 



2 Elephants 

 Rhinoceros 

 A Pair of Koodoo .. . 



Ant-Bears ... ... 



(A Pair of Dead Specimens in Brine are required.) 

 A. Pair of Gemsboks 



„ Hartebeestes 



„ Rheboks 



,, Zebras (not Quagga) 



„ Rock Rabbits 



„ "Wattled Cranes ... 



„ Crested Cranes ... 

 A Young Male Eland 

 A Pair of Springboks 



each 



£90 



90 



31 10 



15 



30 

 30 

 10 

 40 



5 



5 



20 



5 



Any Specimens of the Antelope Tribe will be paid handsomely for. 

 Application to be made to Mr. Benstead, at Government House. 



An official advertisement appeared in the Field in November, 

 1861, offering the following birds of the year, from which it 

 will be seen that the season was a good one for the Himalayan 

 pheasants : 



Cheer, one male and two females 

 Purple kalij, seven pairs 

 Black-backed kalij, five pairs ... 

 White-crested kalij, eight pairs 



£7 



£12 a pair 

 £10 „ 

 £10 „ 



• The epithet " Royal " is often wrongly prefixed to the title Zoological 

 Society of London. This is sometimes done by Fellows, and in a recent "Life" 

 Sir William Flower is described on the title page as Late President of the Hoi/al 

 Zoological Society. The Zoological Society of Ireland is entitled to the epithet. 

 It is evident from the text that Mr. Benstead's "Royal Society" is really the 

 "Zoological Society of London." 



