420 MR. p. L. SCLATKR ON SOME ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. [JuilC 1, 



Fig. 3. HcUx {lihagada) bordacnsis, p. 419. 



4. C'lanvidus hicarinatus, p. 419. 



5. Amauropsis c/lobnlus, p. 416. 



6. Clathurella crassina, p. 416. 



7. Glyphostoma faucimanilata, p. 416. 



8. CoUonia roseopunctata, p. 417. 



9. Adeorhis vincentiana, p. 417. 

 10. Rissoina clegantula, p. 417. 

 11. lirata, p. 417.;^ 



June 1, 1880. 



Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the principal objects he had 

 noticed during a recent inspection of the Zoological Gardens of 

 Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Antwerp. 



At Berlin there was a fine adult pair of the Large Indian Rhino- 

 ceros {R. tmicornis) together, with a good prospect of their breeding 

 in captivity. There was also, now quite adult, the young Rhinoceros 

 imported by Mr. Jamrach in 1874, and said to have been obtained 

 in the Munipore district, of which Mr. Sclater had spoken (in his 

 paper on the Rhinoceroses living in the Gardens read before the Society 

 in 1875 '), as probably an example of R. sondaicus. In this con- 

 clusion he now thought he had been mistaken. The animal was 

 much too large for R. sondaicus, and did not show the peculiar 

 shoulder-fold that characterizes that species. He believed it to be 

 merely H. unicornis. 



In the Hamburg Gardens was a Chimpanzee {Troglodytes niger) 

 that had been seven years there, and a fine pair of the Indian Tapir 

 {Tapirus indicus), which had bred last year, although the young 

 animal had unfortunately died. There was also what he believed to 

 be an adult in full breeding-dress of Pelecanus mitratus, in which the 

 naked space round the eye was orange, the breast tinged with yellow, 

 and the nuchal crest full and pendent. In other respects the bird 

 resembled a small Pelecanus onocrotalus. Amongst the Deer at 

 Hamburg were a male, two females, and three young males of a 

 fine large Stag allied to C. elaphiis, from the Amoor district, which 

 Dr. Bolau had proposed to call Cervus luehdorfi. The question 

 was whether it was not C. ccanthopygus, Milne-Edwards, Ann. d. Sci. 

 Nat. ser. 5, tom. viii. p. 376 (1867). One of these it was hoped 

 to obtain for the Society's collection. 



At Amsterdam Mr. Sclater had observed in the Parrot-house an 

 example orFrichoglossus mitcheUi (the third specimen recorded of this 

 well-marked species), and two living male Paradise-birds {Paradisea 

 papvana), which had been some ten months in the collection. There 

 was likewise a fine pair of Otaria gillespii. 



In the Zoological Gardens at The Hague were likewise two Para- 

 dise-birds of the same species. 



' Trans, Zool. Soc. vol. is, p, 650. 



