The Zoologist — December, 1874. 4267 



The Zoological Society's Cardens in the Regent's Park.— The additions 

 to the coUectiou of the Zoological Gardens since ray last notice are as 

 under : — 



Published 29lh October. — A Bengalese leopard cat {Felis bengalensis) 

 and a common paradoxure {Pamdoxurus ti/pus) from India, presented by 

 Capt. W. Reynolds ; an eagle owl, European, presented by Lord Londes- 

 borough ; a fruit bat (Pteropus medius) from India, presented by Dr. Stafford; 

 a Monteiro's Galago (Galago Monteiri) from Angola ; a toothbilled pigeon 

 from the Samoan Islands, deposited; two Geoffrey's doves {Peristem 

 Geoffroyi) from the Island of Fernando de Norouha; and a Gentoo penguin 

 {Pyijosceles tcBitiatus) from the Falkland Islands. The toothbilled pigeon or 

 Manumea and the Gentoo penguin were mentioned in a note of my own in 

 the November ' Zoologist.' The penguin died on the 3rd of November (see 

 S. S. 42G4). 



Published 5th November. — A Bonnet monkey {Macacus radiatus) from 

 India, presented by Mr. S. T. Hughes; a blackbucked piping crow {Gy7n- 

 norhina leuconota) from South Australia, presented by Mr. F. Fuller; a 

 speckled terrapin {Clemmys guttata) from North America, presented by 

 Mr. A. B. Duncan ; a white stork and two thicknees, European, deposited. 



Published 12th November. — A Nisnas monkey {Cercopithecus pyrrhonotus) 

 from Nubia, presented by Dr. R. F. Mayue ; a Bengalese leopard cat {Felis 

 bengalensis) and an Egyptian cat [Felis Chaus) from India, a Leadbeater's 

 cockatoo from Austraha, deposited ; a pair of barheaded geese [Anser indicus) 

 from India, and three night parrots [Stringops habroptilus) from New Zealand, 

 purchased. These last-named birds form the finest collection of the species 

 ever seen in this country (see S. S. 4260). 



ImteMngs 0f Sncntilit S.o.tietws. 



Zoological Society of London. 



November 3, 1874. — Dr. A. Gijnthee, F.R.S., V.-P., in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August and 

 September, 1874, and called particular attention to a pair of Arabian 

 gaze\les[Gazella arabica) from Aden, presented by Mrs. Benecke, July 2oth ; 

 two specimens of a remarkably large skiuk [Macroscincus Cocteauii) found 

 in Hot Blanc, one of the smaller islands of the Cape de Verd group, pre- 

 sented by Professor Barboza du Bocage, August 14th ; and a one- wattled 

 cassowary [Casuarius uni-appendiculatus), obtained in New Guinea, and 

 presented by Captain Maisby, R.N., of H.M.S. ' Basilisk,' August i25th. 



