1880.J THE SECRKTARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 355 



May 4, 1880. 

 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 April 1880 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of April was 82, of which 33 were by 

 presentation, 5 by birth, 36 by purchase, / were received on deposit, 

 and 1 in exchange. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 69. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of April were as 

 follows : — 



1. An example of the Short-toed Perameles {Perameles obesula, 

 Gould's Mammals of Australia, vol. i. pi. 12), purchased April 15th, 

 being the first example of this Marsupial which we have received for 

 the Menagerie. 



2. A young male Ciipe Hunting-dog (Lycaon pictus), presented 

 by C. Ernest Pope, Esq., of Alice, Victoria East, South Africa, and 

 received April lOth. Mr. Pope informs me, writing on March 1st, 

 that the specimen was then, he believed, about ten months old, and 

 had been fed almost entirely upon the small intestines of sheep. 

 It had been captured when quite young and brought up with some 

 Pointer puppies, with whom it had lived on familiar terms. The 

 only previous example of this animal received by the Society of late 

 years was that acquired in 1871 (see P. Z. S. 1871, p. 298). 



3. A Koala or native Bear of Australia {Phascolarctus cineretis), 



v^s ;.,#^V^ 



Koala, reduced from a drawing by Mr. T. W. Wood, F.Z.S., published in 

 ' The Field ' of May 22nd, 1880. 



purchased April 28, being the first example of this peculiar Marsu- 

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