1875.] LETTER FROM MR. H. A. WICKHAM. 633 
Amsterdam Gardens are unknown, I am fortunate in being able to 
give the south end of New Guinea, opposite Yule Island, as the true 
habitat of Goura scheepmakeri, having been kindly informed by Mr. 
Sclater that several specimens of it are contained in the last collection 
sent to the Civic Museum of Genoa, by the indefatigable Italian 
traveller Signor d’ Albertis, from that locality. 
December 7, 1875. 
George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The following report on the additions to the Society’s Menagerie 
during the month of November 1875 was read by the Secretary :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of November 1875 was 98, of which 2 were 
by birth, 35 by presentation, 38 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 19 
were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 
the same period, by death and removals, was 124. 
The most noticeable additions during the month were :— 
1. A female Beisa Antelope (Oryx Geisa) from Eastern Africa, 
presented by H.H. the Sultan of Zanzibar, and received November 
8, 1875. This addition is the more welcome, as it makes a pair to 
the male of the same species presented by Admiral A. Cumming, 
R.N., in 1874. I believe that this is the only pair of this fine 
Antelope in Europe. 
2. Two All-Green Tanagers (Chlorophonia viridis) from Brazil, 
purchased November 16, 1875. This species is new to the collec- 
tion, and has not, so far as I know, been previously received in a 
living state. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of Hypocolius ampelinus, Bp. (Consp. 
i. p. 336; Heuglin, Ibis, 1868, p. 181, pl. v.), which had been 
obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford at Mazatani Nai, in Upper Scinde, 
to the west of Shikarptir, in March 1875, as already recorded by 
Mr. Blanford in ‘The Ibis,’ 1875, p. 388. M. Oustalet, of the 
Mus¢um d’ Histoire Naturelle, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, had kindly 
compared this specimen with an adult male example from Sennaar, 
received from M. Botta (the original discoverer of this curious bird) 
in 1839, and had found them completely identical. M. Oustalet 
stated that there were three mounted specimens of Hypocolius 
ampelinus in the Gallery of the Paris Museum, received from M. 
Botta. 
Mr. Sclater remarked that this discovery was of special interest, 
as a further proof of the extension of some of the most characteris- 
tic types of the Athiopian Fauna into Western India. 
Mr. Sclater read an extract from a letter addressed to him by 
