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teropus ethiopicus of Sundevall). This animal has been 
placed in the Gardens in company with the Cape Ant- 
bear (O. capensis), received 18th of June, 1869. The two 
animals, although both males, live sociably together, and 
enable a comparison to be made between the external ap- 
pearances of these two nearly allied species. 
August 1870. 
1. A Pluto Monkey (Cercopithecus pluto) from West 
Africa, purchased August 3rd. This is a scarce species 
which was described and figured by Dr. Gray in the 
Society’s ‘ Proceedings ’ as long ago as 1848. 
2. ‘wo Pheasants of a species allied to Phasianus col- 
chicus, deposited by Mr. J. J. Stone on the 14th of August. 
These Pheasants arrived from one of Mr. Stone’s Chinese 
collectors in company with specimens of Thaumalea am- 
herstie, and were doubtless from the same locality—that 
is, from the slopes of the Yung-ling mountains beyond 
Ta-kien-leu, on the Chinese confines of Thibet. Mr. Elliot 
has lately described this species, and proposed to call it 
Phasianus elegans. 
3. Three Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja), purchased 
August 14th, being the first examples of this species ever 
received alive by the Society. 
September 1870. 
1. A Red-necked Bustard (Eupodotis ruficollis), pur- 
chased September 1st, having been imported from Natal 
by Capt. A. Davis. This large Bustard has never been 
previously exhibited alive in the Society’s Gardens. 
2. Two female Dorsal Squirrels (Sciwrus dorsalis, Gray), 
received from the Jardin d’Acclimatation of Paris on the 
7th of September, and making with the two males already 
in the Society’s Gardens two pairs of this beautiful 
Squirrel. 
3. A pair of Daubenton’s Curassows (Craxv daubentoni, 
G. R. Gray), presented on the 29th of September by James 
Wright, Esq., having been received by that gentleman 
from Tucacas, a port in Northern Venezuela. ‘This addi- 
tion is of importance, as the species has not been previously 
received alive by the Society, and its exact locality was 
previously a little uncertain, 
