1875.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 527 
November 2, 1875. 
Dr. E. Hamilton, V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following reports on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and 
September 1875 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of June was 162, of which 49 were by birth, 
54 by presentation, 45 by purchase, and 14 were received on deposit. 
The total number of departures during the same period, by death 
and removals, was 116. 
The most noticeable additions during the month of June were as 
follows :— 
1. A not quite adult Cassowary, received June 7th, having been 
brought from New Zealand by Dr. Hector, and presented to the 
Society by The Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Bart., F.Z.S., 
lately Governor of the Colony. This bird was obtained in 1873, 
when quite young » along with another similar specimen by the officers 
of H.M.S. «Basilisk from the natiyes-of Touan or Cornwallis 
Island, a small island in Torres Straits, four miles distant from the 
south coast of New Guinea, and seventy miles from the opposite 
coast of Cape York. The natives are said to have captured the 
birds on the coast of New Guinea. The present specimen was 
conveyed in the ‘ Basilisk’ to Wellington in July 1873, and had 
remained there ever since. When brought to Wellington it was 
supposed to have been about nine months old. 
It appears to be most like the Australian Cassowary (Casuarius 
australis), but differs in its strouger legs and stouter form, as also 
in the throat-wattle being single and mesial, but divided at the 
extremity, as shown in the accompanying figure (Plate LVIIL.). 
I believe it to be probably of the same species as that of the Aroo 
Islands, which I have lately described as Casuarius beccarii (anted 
87). 
* 2. A Black Wood-Hen (Ocydromus fuscus) from sates Island, 
south of New Zealand, presented by Dr. G. Hector, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., 
June 7th, being the first example of this species of Ocydromus which 
we have received. 
3. A young male brown Indian Antelope of the southern form; 
in which the front pair of horns are barely apparent (Tetraceros 
subquadricornutus, Elliot *), purchased June 8, 1875. Dr. Jerdon 
does not distinguish this animal from the northern 7’. quadricornis ; 
but Sir Victor Brooke tells me he thinks Me the two forms must 
be kept separate. 
4. A female Grant’s Gazelle (Gazella ol le Brooke) from East 
Africa, presented by Dr. John Kirk, C.M.Z.S., June 10th. 
The arrival of a living example of this fine Gazelle, which has 
* Antilope subquadricornutus, Elliot, Madras aCurD x. p. 225, pl. 4. fig. 2; 
Tetraceros subquadricornutus, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1850, p. 117. 
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