4962 THE ZooLoGist—JuNE, 1876. 
journeyed five or six inches in distance from their former position.—IV. B. 
Clarke ; 9, Marine Terrace, North Shields. 
Royal Visit to the “ Zoo.”—The Prince and Princess of Wales, with 
their children, the Princes Albert Victor and George, Princesses Louise 
Victoria, Victoria Alexandra, and Maud; the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke 
of Connaught, Prince Ernest Augustus and Princesses Frederika and Mary 
of Hanover, have visited the Zoological Society’s Gardens, Regent’s Park, 
to see the Indian collection of animals and birds lately brought to England 
by the Prince of Wales. After visiting the lion-house, the Royal party 
walked to the Indian tent to look at the animals there deposited for a time. 
The Secretary, Mr. Sclater, with his usual courtesy, has sent me the 
subjoined list of the Indian animals.— Edward Newman. 
REPORT ON THE INDIAN ANIMALS DEPOSITED IN THE Socrety’s GARDENS 
BY H.R.H. ruz Prince or Waters, May, 1876. 
Sucklers—Two green monkeys, two Rhesus moukeys, five tigers, seven 
leopards, cheetah, one viverrine cat, one Indian civet, four tailless dogs, one 
bull-dog, three Tibetan mastiffs, two white dogs, two Indian wild dogs, one 
Himalayan bear, one sloth bear, four Indian elephants, six domestic sheep, 
two Thar goats, four shawl goats, eight Indian antelopes, two zebus, two 
spotted porcine deer, three axis deer, two musk deer, one domestic ass. 
Birds —One graywinged blackbird, two wedgetailed pigeons, five domestic 
pigeons, eight Surat doves, one black francolin, two hill francolins, four 
Chukar partridges, fifteen Impeyan pheasants, twenty-one Cheer pheasants, 
two Pucras pheasants, four whitecrested kaleeges, three Bankiva jungle-fowl, 
ten horned tragopans, five Indian pea-fowl, three ostriches. 
The whole collection contains sixty-seven specimens of mammals and 
eighty-six of birds, referable to about thirty species, not including domestic 
varieties. Of these the most interesting in a scientific point of view, are— 
1. A pair of the Thar goats (Capra iemlaica), from the higher Himalayan 
ranges. A male of this fine species of wild goat was presented to the Society 
in 1852, by Capt. Townley Parker, and is correctly figured in Wolf and 
Sclater’s ‘Zoological Sketches,’ vol. i., pl. 25, but no example of it has been 
since received. 
2. Two examples of the Laghuna, or lesser porcine deer (Cervus minor), 
of Hodgson, from the Terai of Nepaul. Of this form of deer, which appears 
to be a valid species intermediate between the axis and the hog-deer, no 
previous specimens have reached this country. 
8. Two male musk-deer (Moschus moschiferus), from the Himalayas. The 
Society have previously had but one female of this delicate animal, presented 
by Sir F. R. Pollock, in 1869.—P. L. Selater. 
