676 MR. SCLATER ON CONTINENTAL ZOOL. GARDENS. [Nov. 28, 
5. A young female African Elephant (Hlephas africanus), making 
a pair of these animals now in the Menagerie. Two examples of 
this Elephant had come into the London market for sale, having 
been remitted here from Vienna, where they had been brought from 
the Soudan, along with other animals, by the well-known traveller 
Casanova. The best of these two had been purchased for the So- 
ciety’s collection for the sum of £500. It was a female, now stand- 
ing about 3 feet 6 inches high, and measuring 6 feet 3 inches in girth 
round the middle of the body. The male of the same species (ac- 
quired in June last) measured 5 feet 6 inches in height, and 9 feet 
6 inches in girth. 
6. An Abyssinian Hornbill (Bucorar abyssinicus), purchased 
along with the African Elephant. Specimens of this fine bird, on 
two former occasions, had reached the Society’s Gardens alive; but 
in each case in bad condition, and only to die shortly afterwards. 
The present example was in excellent health, and made the fifth 
species of this peculiar family of birds now exhibited in the Society’s 
Aviaries, the series being composed as follows :— 
Buceros cavatus. Toccus erythrorhynchus. 
rhinoceros. Bucorax abyssinicus. 
albirostris. 
7. A Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus, Mill.) from New 
Guinea, received in exchange from the Zoological Gardens, Rot- 
terdam. 
8. A Black-necked Screamer (Chauna nigricollis, Sclater), received 
November 16th, having been purchased in New Granada for the 
Society by Mr. Edward Greey, Corr. Memb., to whom the Society 
had likewise been indebted for their original specimens of this bird. 
Mr. Sclater stated that since he had described the species, he had 
noticed another fine example of it in the Museum at Bremen. He 
was also of opinion that the Chauna derbiana of the Leyden Museum 
(if the locality assigned to it, New Granada, were correct) would 
probably turn out to belong to this species. 
9. A young female Jew-Monkey (Pithecia satanas) (also acquired 
through Mr. Greey), exhibited the well-marked dorsal patch and 
other peculiarities of the adult, and had induced Mr. Sclater to 
believe that he had been in error in referring the specimen figured in 
the Society’s Proceedings for 1864 (pl. xL1. p. 712) to the same 
species. 
Mr. Sclater promised a further communication on these two Pi- 
thecie as soon as he had made the necessary investigations into their 
somewhat confused synonymy. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater made some remarks on the animals he had 
noticed in several of the continental zoological gardens which he had 
visited during the summer. 
The Gardens of the Zoological Society of Hamburg, established 
only about two years since, were stated to be in a very flourishing 
state, and to contain several very noticeable varieties. Among them 
