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1877.] MR. P, L. SCLATER ON TROGLODYTES GORILLA. 303 
April 17th, 1877. 
Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of March 1877. 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of March was 118, of which 53 were by pre- 
sentation, 7 by birth, 43 by purchase, 12 were received on deposit, 
and 3 by exchange. 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 collection of rare Himalayan Passeres, purchased March 8, 
embracing examples of the following ornamental species, new to the 
Society’s Collection, viz. Megalema hodgsoni, Grammatoptila stri- 
ata, Sibia capistrata, and Hemixos flavala. 
2. Two young male Orang-outangs (Simia satyrus), presented 
March 13, by Dr. R. Sin, F.Z.S. 

A letter was read addressed to the Secretary by Mr. A. Welles, of 
Christchurch, New Zealand, giving an account of the success which 
had attended the endeavours of the Acclimatization Society of that 
colony to introduce Salmon into New Zealand from the U.S. of 
America. 

Mr. Sclater exhibited specimens of the young Anacondas which 
had been produced dead by the large female of this Snake purchased 
on the 15th of February 1877. 
Two young had been produced on the 2nd inst., and one other 
subsequently ; but it seemed probable that more would follow. 
Another member of the Boidee that had produced young ones (already 
extruded from the egg) in the Gardens was stated to be the Yellow 
Boa of the Antilles (Chilobothrus inornatus). 

Mr. Sclater called attention to two large photographs of the 
young Gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla) now living in the Aquarium at 
Berlin, which had been kindly forwarded to the Society by the 
authorities of that Institution. 
This animal had been obtained by Dr. Falkenstein, of the German 
West-African Expedition, on the 2nd of October 1875, at Ponta Negra 
(about two days’ journey inland from Chincoxo) on the West-African 
coast, from a Portuguese. The Portuguese had received it from a negro, 
who had shot the mother a few days before and captured the young 
one. Dr. Falkenstein had brought the animal with him to Berlin, 
and sold it to the Berlin Aquarium on the 30th of June 1876, for 
20,000 marks (£1,000) which went to the benefit of the Expedition. 
On its arrival in Berlin the Gorilla weighed 30 Ib. (German) ; it 
