60 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON GALAGO MONTETRI. (Jan. 24, 
Mr. Broughton’s care, when it will have every chance of reaching 
England alive.” 
The Secretary called the attention of the meeting to the fine 
young male specimen of the Prong-horned Antelope of America 
(Antilocapra americana), just received, in the Society’s Menagerie, 
being as he believed, the first imstance of the introduction of this 
animal alive into Europe. This animal, of which a water-colour 
drawing by Mr. Wolf (Plate III.) was exhibited, had been imported 
into New York from California, and thence brought to this country. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a stuffed specimen of a Water-Pipit consi- 
dered by Mr. Gould to be Anthus spinoletta (Linn.), from the col- 
lection of the Bishop of Oxford, V.P. of the Society, and read the 
following letter, giving particulars as to its supposed capture in this 
country :— “44 Ship Street, Dee. 22, 1864. 
«My Lorp,—In answer to your note of this morning respecting 
the Water-Pipit, I beg to say we cannot give very definite informa- 
tion as to the truth of its capture; but we remember the circum- 
stances very well. 
“It was killed, about the winter of 1859 or 1860, by a young gen- 
tleman from the Brighton College, who was in the habit of shooting a 
great many birds, on an extensive beach extending from the outskirts 
of Brighton to Shoreham, where there are some large ponds and a 
ood expanse of mud, which at high tide is covered with water. 
“He had that day killed several birds, namely, Skylarks, Pipits, 
&c., which he brought to me the same evening. I immediately 
noticed the Water-Pipit amongst them as a bird new to me, and 
strongly recommended him to have it preserved ; but he refused, and 
gave me all his birds. I preserved it at once and kept it, expecting 
to be able at some future time to discover its species, which I did 
shortly after purchasing Mr. Bree’s ‘ Birds of Europe.’ 
«‘The reason that we cannot tell the exact date is that, as it was 
given to us, no entry was made in our books. 
“Your Lordship’s obedient Servant, &c., 
“ Joun Pratt.” 
Mr. Sclater stated that a second specimen of the same species, 
obtained under similar circumstances, was in the possession of Mr. 
Gould. 
My. Sclater exhibited the type specimen of Galago monteiri*, 
Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 231, pl. xxvirr., from the collection of 
Mr. L. A. Monteiro, and stated that he had compared it with the 
specimens of Galago crassicaudata and Otogale crassicaudata, var. 
kirkii, Gray (P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 456), in the British Museum. 
My. Sclater stated that the specimen called “var. kirkii” by 
Dr. Gray was intermediate in colouring between what Dr. Gray 
considered the typical G. crassicaudata and the present specimen. 
* Callotus monteiri, Gray, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 145. 
