308 MR. C. BOCK ON CAPRICORNIS SUMATRENSIS. [Apr. 1, 



.April 1, 1879. 

 Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., 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 1879 :— 



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

 gerie during the month of March was 63, of which 28 were by 

 presentation, 3 by birth, 22 by purchase, 7 were received on deposit, 

 and 3 by exchange. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removal, was 98. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of March were 

 as follows : — 



1. A young male of the Mule Deer of North America {Cariacus 

 macrotus), obtained from Dr. J. D. Caton, of Ottawa, Illinois, U. S. A., 

 and received March 12. Through the hind intercession of the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Judge Caton has been 

 induced to send us our first example of this peculiar Deer, of which 

 we may hope shortly to receive hinds also, by the aid of kindly 

 promised assistance from the same influential quarter. 



2. A male Sumatran Rhinoceros, deposited March 20th. 



This is the first male of the Sumatran Rhinoceros that we have 

 yet received, the examples previously exhibited in the Society's 

 Gardens having been all of the female sex. In general appearance 

 this specimen presents all the characters of the Rhinoceros suma- 

 trensis as distinguished from R. lasiotis. 



The Secretary read the following extracts from a letter addressed to 

 him by Mr. Carl Bock, dated Padang Panjang, Sumatra, Jan. 24, 

 1879. 



" The Capricornis Bumatrensis, or ' Mountain-Antelope ' as you 

 very properly call it, I have been on the look-out for ever since I 

 left Padang ; I was told by several there it has never reached Europe 

 alive. It is sparingly distributed over the mountains here in the 

 highlands proper; the best district is Lolo, where I spent more than 

 one month, and had two men all the time in the most inaccessible 

 parts purposely to catch some ' Kambing-utan,' as the Malays call 

 the animal. I succeeded in getting a young male of perhaps 10 to 

 12 months. I have named him ' Lo!o.' I give you an extract from 

 what I have noted down about the animal. 



"The 'Kambing-utan ' or wild Goat, when I first saw the animal, 

 struck me as not being like a Goat at all; his form and outline more 

 resemble that of a young Reindeer. He is a young male of perhaps 

 ten months to a year old. ; his colour is jet-black ; he has long 

 coarse hair, and a mane of stiff hair of a whitish grey colour ; the 

 length of the hairs ranging from 3 to 4 inches. His ears are thinly 

 covered inside with white hairs, on the outer side of brown colour, 

 mixed with black ; the ears are remarkably long and erect ; when he 

 listens he bends them quite forward past the horns ; the latter are 



