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formerly living in the Knowsley Menagerie) ever received 
by the Society. 
April 1870. 
1. A female Rusine Deer, purchased April 13th, and 
stated to have been received from the Philippines. 
This Deer has been for the present designated Cervus 
marianus, the Deer of the Marianne Islands (upon which 
this term was founded by Desmarest), having been stated 
to have been introduced into those islands from the Philip- 
ines. 
2. A Jackal, purchased April Ist, and stated to have 
been brought from the river Fernand Vas, south of the 
Gaboon, and to be the animal referred to as the Mboyo in 
Du Chaillu’s ‘ Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial 
Africa’? For this animal, which appeared to be unde- 
scribed, the Secretary has proposed as a temporary de- 
signation the name of the Side-striped Jackal (Canis 
lateralis). 
3. A Sooty Crow Shrike (Strepera fuliginosa, Gould) 
from Australia, purchased April 13th, believed not to have 
been previously exhibited, and making the third species of 
this peculiar Australian genus now living in the Society’s 
Gardens. 
4, AnAngulated Tortoise (Chersina angulata) from South 
Africa, believed to be the first individual of this rare species 
obtained alive by the Society. 
5. A Vulturine Guinea-fowl (Numida vulturina) from 
Brava, on the Somali coast of Eastern Africa, presented to 
the Society by Dr. John Kirk, C.M.Z:S. 
May 1870. 
1. A male Deer, received May 5th along with a collec- 
tion of other animals transmitted to the Society from Sin- 
gapore by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. This Deer, 
which has since*been ascertained to be trom the Philip- 
pines, has been named by the Secretary Cervus alfredi, 
- after His Royal Highness the Prince who sent it home. 
2. Three Bladder-nosed Seals (Cystophora cristata), ob- 
- tained by purchase out of a whaling ship that had come 
into Dundee. 
3, Two Bernier’s Ibises (Ibis bernieri) from Madagascar, 
