384 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [May 6, 



on the west coast of France ; and it frequently visits the English 

 Channel, pursuing the shoals of mackerel and pilchards. In the 

 Museum of the College of Surgeons is the skeleton of a fine adult 

 animal, which when alive must have been about seven feet long, 

 taken near the beginning of the present century at Worthing. 

 Northwards of this locality it appears to become rare. Van Beneden 

 does not include it among the Cetacea frequenting the Belgian coast, 

 as he was not able to find any example of its capture in the North 

 Sea. Specimens, however, are occasionally met with on the coast 

 of Norway and Denmark, as mentioned by Lilljeborg and Reinhardt ; 

 and although it is included in many of the lists of the Cetacea of the 

 Greenland Seas, it is doubtful whether some of the species of 

 Lagenovhynchus may not have been mistaken for it. 



Mr. Buckland has added a cast of this specimen to his valuable 

 series of models of Cetacea, which exhibit better than any other 

 method yet devised the form, proportions, and colour of these 

 animals, otherwise so difficult of preservation. 



May 6, 18/9. 

 Prof. Flower, 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 April 1879 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of April 1879 was 110, of which 3 were by 

 birth, 77 by presentation, 3 by purchase, 8 by exchange, and 19 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period by death and removals was 115. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of April were as 

 follows : — 



1. Two Lanceolated Jays (Garrulus lanceolatus, Vigors) from 

 the Himalayas, received in exchange April 1st. This fine bird, a close 

 ally of our well-known Jay, has not, so far as I am aware, been 

 brought to Europe alive previously. 



2. Two female Roe-deer (said to have been brought from China, 

 and purchased by one of the Society's correspondents at Marseilles), 

 received in exchange April 3rd. These Deer are probably referable 

 to the Capreolus pygargus (Pallas), and differ from the Europeau 

 species in having a longer body and head, and being higher on the 

 legs. The colour is much darker, and appears to be red in the 

 summer coat. The ears are longer and more pointed. 



3. A fine young male of the Japanese Coat-Antelope ( Capricornus 

 crispus*) presented by the Society's Corresponding Member, Mr. 

 H. Pryer, of Yokohama, Japan, and received April 12th. 



We owe Mr. Pryer many thanks for the trouble he has taken in ob- 

 taining for us this fine and rare animal, the first of its species which 

 has ever reached us. 



4. An Alpine Accentor (Accentor alpinns) received in exchange 

 April 30th, being, it is believed, the first example of this little bird 

 obtained in captivity. 



1 Antilope crispa, Siebold, Faun. Japon. Mamm, p. 55, tab. xvii. 



