1875. | LETTER FROM DR. A. B. MEYER. 469 
June 15, 1875. 
Prof. Newton, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of May 1875. 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of May was 165. Of these, 100 were acquired 
by presentation, 34 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 18 by birth, 1 by 
hatch, and 8 were received on deposit. The total number of depar- 
tures during the same period, by death and removals, was 113. 
The most uoticeable additions during the month of May were as 
follows :— 
1. A Hairy Tree-Porcupine (Cercolabes villosus, F. Cuv.) from 
South-East Brazil, and 
2. A Rock-Cavy, ¢ (Cervdon rupestris, Max.), from the saine 
country. Both of these Rodents, which were purchased on May 5th 
cf a dealer in Liverpool, are new to the Society’s collection. 
3. A fine example of the King Penguin (dptenodytes pennanti) 
from the Falkland Islands, presented by Mr. Frederick E. Cobb, 
Manager of the Falkland-Islands Company at Stanley, Falkland 
Islands, received May 18th. 
4, An example of an apparently new species of Monkey allied to 
the common Macaque (Macacus cynomolgus), presented by Dr. 
Marfels, Conservator of Forests to the King of Burmah, Mandalay, 
Burmah, and brought home by Dr. J. Anderson, F.Z.S., May 19th. 
Dr. Anderson will give us a complete description of this Monkey. 
5. A small Wallaby of a species new to the Society’s Menagetie, 
purchased May 28th. It appears to be, as kindly suggested by 
Mr. Gould, an example of the Agile Wallaby (Halmaturus agilis), 
Gould’s ‘Mammals of Australia,’ ii. pls. 24 & 25, from North 
Australia. 
6. An about half-grown Australian Cassowary (Casuarius aus- 
tralis), from Queensland, presented by E. P. Ramsay, Esq.,C.M.Z.S., 
May 28th, making the second example of this hitherto little-known 
species now alive in the Gardens. 
7. Two Jameson’s Gulls (Larus jamesoni), from Sydney, N.S.W., 
presented by C. Moore, Esq., C.M.Z.S., May 28th, being the first 
example of this beautiful species we have received alive. 
A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by Dr. A. B. Meyer, 
stating that he had made inquiries of Mr. Van Musschenbroek, of 
Ternate, as to the truth of the statement of Mr. Bruyn (P. Z.S. 
1875, p. 30) that he had specimens of four species of Birds of 
Paradise living in his possession, and had ascertained that this was 
not the fact, and that the only living Birds of Paradise in Mr. 
Bruyn’s possession were two examples of Paradisea papuana. The 
only foundation for the story was that Mr. Bruyn eapected to get 
specimens of other species. 
