PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 15, 1878. 

 Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 dunng the month of December 1877 was read by the Secretary : — 



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

 gerie during the month of December 1877 was 103, of which 17 were 

 by birth, 28 by presentation, 24 by purchase, 21 by exchange, and 

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

 the same period, by death and removals, was 101. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1 ■ A Fa "iily of Gelada Baboons (Cynocephalus gelada), deposited 

 by Mr. C. Hagenbeck, December 7th, consisting of an adult male, 

 three young males, and four females of this singular and little-known 

 Monkey. A single example of it was once before exhibited for a 

 short time in the Society's Menagerie ; but this is the first occasion 

 on which we have had an opportunity of watching their curious 

 habits and observing their grass-eating propensities. 



2. A pair of Musk-deer {Moschus moschiferus), presented by Sir 

 Richard Pollock, K.C.S.I., H.M.Z.S., Commissioner at Peshawur, 

 N.W. P., and arrived December 15th. This is believed to be the 

 first pair of Musk-deer that have reached Europe alive. They have 

 been placed temporarily in one of the outer cages of the New Lion- 

 house, and seem likely to do well. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1878, No. I. 1 



