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{Cissa venatoria), purchased June 2ik1, and believed to be the first 

 examples of this form received alive in Europe. 



An Australian fruit-bat [Pteropus puliocephnlus, Temminck), from 

 New South Wales, presented by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 

 July 4th. 



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 Casala, Lower Nubia. 



A young female of the Spanish ibex {Capra pyrenaica, Schimper), 

 presented by Major Howard Irby, August 10th. Another corre- 

 spondent of the Society has promised to supply a male of this in- 

 teresting species. 



A very fine young female of the Hoolock gibbon [Hylohates 

 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 pro- 

 vince. The animal is common in the jungles of the Gowalpara dis- 

 trict, on the left bank of the Barhampooter ; and ils young are 

 frequently captured by ihe 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 gene- 

 rally 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 liberty there, 

 kept her health very well. She has grown considerably since she was 

 first sent down to me." 



A specimen of the large white crane of Upper India (Grtis leuco- 

 geranos), presented by the Babu Rajeudra Mullick, of Calcutta, 

 August 14th. 



A young female sea-lion {Olariajubala), from the Falkland Islands, 

 received August 24th. 



This individual was the only survivor of eight examples of this 



animal captured in various spots on the coast of the Falklands by 



Adolphe Alexandre Lecomte, the Society's keeper, who was sent out 



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