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there seems to be every probability of this fine Pheasant 
breeding in the Society’s Gardens this year. 
9. Three Ruddy Flamingoes (Phenicopterus ruber), from 
North America, not previously exhibited in the Society’s 
Menagerie. 
The group of Sirenians, or marine herbivorous animals 
containing the Manatee and Dugong, never having been 
represented in the Society’s series, two attempts were 
made during the course of last year to supply this deside- 
ratum. In March 1866 the Society’s active and obliging 
Correspondent, Mr. G. W. Latimer, of Porto Rico, obtained 
a young living Manatee, and forwarded it to England by the 
Royal West India Mail Company’s Steamer ‘ Tasmanian,’ 
the Directors of that Company having most. liberally 
granted special facilities for this purpose. In the spring 
of last year also negotiations were entered into with Mr, 
Kappler, a German naturalist resident in Surinam, for the 
purchase of a living specimen of the same species in his 
possession, and Mr. Clarence Bartlett was sent out to 
convey the animal home. In neither case was the result 
successful, the Manatees having both died before their 
arrival in this country. But the Council do not think the 
expenditure incurred in this object (amounting in the 
whole to £168 19s.) has been by any means thrown away. 
In the first place, the practicability of bringing a live 
Manatee to this country has been nearly demonstrated, 
the animal under Mr. C. Bartlett’s care having lived until 
within a few hours of its arrival at Southampton, and 
only lost from the intervention of accidental circumstances. 
In the second place, the examination of the two Manatees 
ina fresh state, which has been undertaken by the Society’s 
Prosector, Dr. James Murie, will greatly augment our 
knowledge of the anatomy of this singular animal. 
Two Members of the Society in the East—Dr. J, Ander- 
son, of Calcutta, and Mr. Robert Swinhoe, of H.M. Con- 
sular Service in China—having most kindly offered their 
services as honorary agents tor the Society in their re- 
spective localities, certain sums of money have been placed 
at the disposal of these gentlemen for the purchase of 
animals intended for the Menagerie. In this way Dr. 
Anderson expended for the Society in Calcutta the sum 
of £45 7s. 10d., and Mr. Swinhoe in China the sum of 
£271 10s. during the year 1866, which sums respectively 
will be found to have been charged to the extraordinary 
