206 MR. ALLPORT ON ACCLIMATIZATION OF SALMON. [Apr. 21, 



April 21, 1874. 

 The Viscount Walden, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1874 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Me- 

 nagerie during the month of March 1874 was 55, of which 5 were 

 by birth, 24 by presentation, 19 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 

 5 were received" on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period by death and removals was 76. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of March were 

 as follows : — 



1 . A male Javan Rhinoceros, purchased March 7th for the sum of 

 .£800. A special report on this animal was read at the last meeting 

 (see p. 182). 



2. A specimen of a rare and little-known Parrot, Finsch's 

 Amazon (Chrysotis finschi, Sclater), presented by Mrs. Chivers, 

 March 9 th. 



I originally described this species in the Society's 'Proceedings' 

 for 1864 (p. 298) from a single specimen in the British Museum. 



It would seem that Souance's upper figure of C. viridigenalis 

 (Icon. Perr. t. 31), of which we have also two specimens living in 

 the Gardens, may be intended for it. Cf. Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 545. 



The only second example of G. finschi which I have met with is 

 a skin in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, collected by 

 Re'bouch at Putla, in Western Mexico. 



It is therefore with great interest that I was able to determine 

 the Amazon presented by Mrs. Chivers on the 9th ult. as belonging 

 undoubtedly to this rare species, of which I now exhibit an accurate 

 coloured figure by Mr. Smit (Plate XXXIV.). 



Communications were read from Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., "On 

 the very young of the Jaguar, Felis (Leopardus) onca -," "On the 

 young of the Bosch Vark, Fotamochozrus africanus, from Madagas- 

 car;" and "On the skulls of the Leopard in the British Museum." 



Mr. Edwin Ward, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon a pair 

 of antlers of a large Deer obtained by Major Cathcart in the Crimea, 

 which appeared to be those of the Persian Deer (Cervus maral). 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Introduction of Salmon to the Waters of 

 Tasmania. By Morton Allport, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived February 25, 1874.] 



On the 4th of December, 1873, a Grilse (Salmo salar) fresh 

 run from the sea, measuring 1 9 inches in length, and weighing two 

 pounds fourteen ounces, was left in a small tide-pool in the estuary 



