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ler of Melbourne, had previously forwarded a living ex- 
ample of this bird, which, unfortunately, died in the vessel 
after it had reached the docks. 
12. An African Fruit-Bat (Cynonycteris collaris) which 
had been captured at sea off the St. John’s river, Natal, 
March Ist, 1868, and was purchased the 27th of May. 
This animal is placed in the Monkey-house along with 
the Indian Fruit-Bat (Pieropus medius), which has been 
living in the Society’s Menagerie ever since October 1863. 
13. A pair of the beautiful Green Hunting-Crow of 
Northern India (Cissa venatoria), purchased June 2nd, and 
believed to be the first examples of this form received 
alive in Europe. 
14. An Australian Fruit-Bat (Pteropus poliocephalus, 
Temminck), from New South Wales, presented by H.R.H. 
the Duke of Edinburgh, July 4th. 
15. A young male Koodoo Antelope (Strepsiceros kudu), 
purchased July 16th out of a large collection of living 
animals made by M. Casanova in the vicinity of Casalé, 
Lower Nubia. 
16. A young female of the Spanish Ibex (Capra pyre- 
naica, Schimper), presented by Major Howard Irby, Au- 
gust 10th. Another correspondent of the Society has 
promised to supply a male of this interesting species. 
17. A very fine young female of the Hoolock Gibbon 
(Hylobates hoolock), presented by Mr. A. Grote, F.Z.S., 
August 14th, who has communicated to the Society the 
following note respecting this animal :— 
“ This Hoolock was sent to me early in 1867, by Mrs. 
Driver, of Gowalpara, a civil station on the western border 
of the Assam province. The animal is common in the 
jungles of the Gowalpara district, on the left bank of the 
Barhampooter ; and its young are frequently captured by 
the natives and brought into the station, though, being 
impatient of confinement, they are not usually, so far as I 
can learn, kept alive for any time. Those which are sent 
down to Calcutta seem very sensitive to the change of 
climate, and are generally carried off by pulmonary disease. 
The individual which I brought home was attacked within 
a week of her reaching me at Alipore, and would probably 
have succumbed but for the unremitting attention of Dr. 
John Anderson, the Society’s agent in Calcutta, to whom 
I had made her over. She was for more than a year in 
the Botanic Gardens, and, being allowed a good deal of 
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