18/3.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 761 



December 2, 1873. 

 Dr. A. Gunther, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the months of October and November 

 1873 : — 



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

 nagerie during the month of October 1873 was 1 1 1, of which 3 were 

 by birth, 45 by presentation, 25 by purchase, 21 by exchange, and 

 17 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period by death and removals was 129. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of October were 

 as follows : — 



1. Two of the smaller variety of the Patagonian Conure, received 

 in exchange Oct. 13th. 



This smaller and brighter form of this Parrot, found in Mendoza 

 and other States of the Argentine Republic, would appear to be best 

 entitled to the name pataffonus, that name having been founded by 

 Vieillot on Azara's description of specimens seen at Buenos Ayres. 

 The larger form of Chili and the west coast may be called Conurus 

 byroni (J. E. Gray), if, as proposed by Finsch, cyanolyseos of Molina 

 be rejected as inadmissible. 



We have examples of both forms now living in the Parrot-house. 



2. Two Sand-badgers (Meles ankuma, Temm. Fauna Japon. 

 Mamm. p. 30, pi. 6), presented by Lieut, the Hon. A. C. Littleton, 

 of H.M.S. ' Salamis,' Oct. 2Cth. 



Mr. Littleton writes to me that he procured these animals in the 

 mountain-district of Japan, about 70 miles north of Jeddo. Of the 

 two only specimens of this species already received by the Society 

 in 1865 one is still living in the Society's Gardens. 



3. A Collared Jay Thrush (Garrulax picticollis, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 554), received from the Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris, Oct. 

 30 th . I have never seen a living example of this scarce and interesting 

 species before. 



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

 gerie during November 1872 was 63, of which 3 were by birth, 35 

 by presentation, 15 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 6 were received 

 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period 

 by death and removals was 123. 



The most noticeable additions were as follows : — 



1 . Twelve Terrapins obtained at Bussorah, and presented Nov. 10th 

 by Capt. Phillips, of the S.S. * Mesopotamia.' 



These Terrapins belong undoubtedly to the species lately described 

 and figured by Dr. Gunther in the Society's 'Proceedings' as Emys 

 ffrayi* (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 504, pi. xxxviii.). But Mr. Blanford in- 

 forms me that he has lately identified this species as being the true Tes- 

 tudo caspica of Gmelin . It must therefore be called Clemmys caspica. 



* The same specific title had been previously given by Strauch (Vertb. d. 

 iSchildkr. p. 88) to the Batugitr picta of Gray ; and another Emys grayi has since 

 been described by A. Dunieril and Bocourt in the ' Report of the French Scien- 

 tific Commission in Mexico,' Kepi, and Batrach. p. 13. 



