374 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Nov. 8, 
2 Indian Jabirus (Mycteria australis). 
2 Saras Cranes (Grus antigone). 
2 Land-Tortoises (Testudo indica). 
From Capetown. 
1 Black Kite (Milvus niger). 
1 Crested Spizaétus (Spizaétus occipitalis). 
3 Madagascar Francolins (Francolinus madagascariensis). 
Mr. Thompson had experienced very few losses on the voyage 
home, the only noticeable occurrence under this head being the 
Polyplectrons. Of these birds a large number had been shipped at 
Calcutta, but nearly all of them died before reaching Madras. 
Dr. Sclater also called the attention of the Meeting to several re- 
cent interesting additions to the Society’s Menagerie, amongst which 
were— 
1. A Brown Bear from Hakodadi, in the northern island of Japan, 
probably referable to Ursus arctos, var. beringensis, of Middendorf 
(Sib. Reise, ii. p. 4 e¢ seqg.). Dr. Sclater remarked that the Society 
now possessed living examples of the two distinct species of Bears 
from Japan referred to in the Fauna Japonica, Mamm. p. 29, as 
Ursus ferox and Ursus tibetanus. Of the latter, correctly named 
Ursus japonicus, a figure had already been given in the ‘ Proceed- 
ings,’ 1862, pl. xxx11. p. 261. The former, on the authority of 
Von Schrenck (Amur-reise, i. p. 16), must be Ursus arctos, var. 
beringensis. 
2. Pairs of the Sémmering’s Pheasant of Japan (Phasianus 
seemmeringii). Fourteen birds of this fine species had been success- 
fully imported into this country in June last by Mr. Reginald 
Russell, Corr. Memb., of which two pairs had been secured for the 
collection. 
3. A young male Abyssinian Ass (Zquus teniopus, Heuglin), and 
a young female of the true Zebra (Hquus zebra). These two accept- 
able additions rendered the series of the genus Hquus in the Society’s 
collection complete, it now embracing examples of all the six known 
species. 
(1.) Equus hemionus from Tibet, one female. 
(2) onager from India, Persia, and Syria, three females. 
(3.) —— teniopus from Abyssinia, one male. 
(4.) zebra from South Africa, one female. 
(5.) —— burchelli from South Africa, male and female. 
(6.) ——— quagga from South Africa, one female. 
4, A second specimen of the Apteryx, or Kiwi, of New Zealand 
(Apteryx mantelli), presented to the collection by Major E. Ruck 
Keane, of Swyncombe, Henley-upon-Thames, on the 29th of Sep- 
tember last. This bird (which appeared to be immature, and had 
been obtained by Major Keane in Auckland, in September 1863, 
from a Maori, who had caught it in a swamp in that neighbourhood) 
had been placed in the Collection, along with the female of the same 
