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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 
48th APRIL, 1870. 
JOHN GOULD, ESQ., F.R.S., V.P., IN THE CHAIR. 
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The SEcrErary read some notes on the principal Additions to 
the Society’s Menagerie during the month of March, and called 
particular attention to four Burrowing Owls presented by G. Wirxs, 
Esq., ©.M.Z.S., and to a Wood-loving Antelope (Cephalophus 
‘sylvicultrix), obtained by purchase. 
- Mr. J. E. Hartine, F.Z.8., exhibited an unusually fine speci- 
' men of the Dusky Redshank (Totanus fuscus) in summer plumage, 
“recently killed near London. 
The Rey. H. B. Tristram exhibited two skins of Salicaria 
melanopogon—a rare European warbler, obtained near Ettawah, 
north of Agra, being the first recorded occurrence of this species 
in Central India. 
Dr. E. Hammon communicated an extract from a letter 
addressed to him by his nephew, Capt. Haminroy, lately com- 
_Manding detachment at Port Blair, concerning the true locality of 
the so-called “Andaman Monkey” now in the Society’s Gardens, 
_ which was stated to have been imported into the Andaman Islands 
from Burmah, 
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