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for oil ; and at tlie final sitting of the Fourth International 

 Congress of Ornithologists a telegram was sent to the Colonial 

 Governments at the Antipodes urging them to introduce legis- 

 lation to prevent the boiling down of sea-birds for oil. Though 

 the practice seems to have escaped general attention till recently, 

 it is by no means new. Lecomte told Frank Buckland that 

 *' there were vast numbers of penguins at the Falkland Islands. 

 Last year [1867] no less than 405,600 were slain, skinned, and 

 boiled down to make oil. They yielded 50,700 gallons of oil, 

 worth Is. 7Jd. per gallon, making a total of £4,119 7s. 6d." 



A hoolock gibbon presented by Mr. Grote is entered as new 

 to the collection ; but in this case, as in that of the kiang, a 

 prior existence of the species in the Menagerie seems to have 

 been overlooked."^ The regent-bird was received for the first 

 time this year. 



Many new forms were entered on the List in 1869. Per- 

 haps the most remarkable were two examples {$ ^) of Pere 

 David's deer, presented by Sir Rutherford Alcock. The 

 species was described by Milne Edwards from skins and skulls 

 sent to Paris by Pere David, a French missionary in China. 

 This deer has a long tufted tail, and the neck is maned. The 

 antlers are remarkable in bearing no brow tine; a straight 

 back tine is given off from the beam, and the extremity may 

 be forked. These deer are said to have been kept from time 

 immemorial in the large Imperial Park about a league south 

 of Pekin, but they are not known in a wild condition. 



The Cape ant-bear was introduced this year, as were the 

 aardwolf, the panda, and the true musk-deer. The two " musk- 

 deer presented by the Princess Victoria" in 1836 were un- 

 doubtedly examples of Stanley's chevrotain.-j- 



Among the birds were Owen's apteryx and the Amherst 



* In treating of the hoolock gibbon at a scientific meeting in 1839, Horsfield 

 said : " Living individuals are at present in the Society's Gardens in the Regent's 

 'Pa.Tk."—Froceedinffs, 1839, p. 148. 



f Dr. Gray refers also to this genus ITragulus] . . . Moschus Stanley anus, of 

 which in 1836 there were four living specimens in the magnificent collection of the 

 Earl of Derby at Knowsley; and two others, consisting of a specimen of each of 

 the varieties, in that of the Zoological Society of London, the gift of Her present 

 Majesty." — " English Cyclopaedia " (Nat. Hist.), iii. 907. They were referred 

 to as " Stanley musk deer " in the President's address at the Jubilee Meeting, 

 June 16, 1887. 



