1875.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE, 529 
(Calliste festiva and Euphonia pectoralis) new to the collection, and, 
so far as I know, never previously received alive. 
4. A very fine male Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger), presented 
by Captain Lees, Governor of Lagos, July 19. The first set of 
teeth have been already shed, which is rarely the case in examples 
of the Chimpanzee brought to this country. 
5. An Electric Silurus (Malapterurus beninensis) from West 
Africa, purchased July 21st, being the first example of this singular 
fish brought to our Gardens. On touching its belly with the finger 
a slight electric shock is at once given forth. The fish is about 5 
inches long. 
6. A young female Tora Antelope (Alcelaphus tora) from Upper 
Nubia, purchased July 22nd, being the first example of this eastefn 
form of the Bubal which has reached us alive. The colour and 
shape of the body appear to be nearly identical with those of the 
Bubal; but the horns of the adult male (as I have shown, P. Z.S. 
1873, p. 762) are very different. 
7. A young male Wild Sheep, apparently Ovis cycloceros, pre- 
sented July 28th, by Commander Edmund St. J. Garforth, R.N. of 
H.M.S. ‘ Philomel,’ who writes to me that-he obtained it in Mus- 
cat, on the shores of the Persian Gulf, which I should not have sup- 
posed to be within the range of this species. 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of August was 94; of these, 52 were acquired 
by presentation, 12 by purchase, 13 by birth, 1 by exchange, and 16 
received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 
same period by death and removals was 94. 
The most noticeable additions during the month were :— 
1. A young female Manatee (Manatus americanus), deposited 
August 6th by Mr. R. Swain, of Demerara, and subsequently pur- 
chased for £150. This animal was conveyed to England, on board 
the 8.S. ‘Blenheim,’ Captain Robinson, in a large wooden tank 
slung upon a horizontal pole, and was fed during the voyage on the 
leaves of a large aquatic plant resembling the water-lily (Nymphea), 
shipped for the purpose. It was about three weeks on the voyage. 
On its arrival in the Gardens, it was placed in one of the shallow 
concreted ponds near the Sea-lion’s basin, and fed on lettuce and 
vegetable marrow. It lived in apparently good health until Septem- 
ber 7th, when it died very suddenly. Mr. Garrod is preparing 
some notes upon this interesting animal, which is the first of the 
species that has actually reached us alive, although Mr. C. Bart- 
lett nearly succeeded in bringing us one from Surinam in 1866 *. 
2. Two young Gannets, probably the young of the Brown Gan- 
net or Booby (Sula fusca), but still partly in the down plumage, and 
therefore not certainly determinable. These birds were obtained 
from Port Lemon, Costa Rica, by J. C. Hussey, and presented by 
that gentleman August 16th. 
3. A Woodford’s Owl (Syrnium woodfordi) from Natal, presented 
* See Trans. Zool. Soe, viii. p. 192. 
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