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Islands, where they used to be so numerons. Admiral Fitzroy 

 found a party on James Island making oil in 1835. 



" In Abingdon Island, where they are not numerous, I believe 

 they are doomed to destruction directly the orchilla-pickers are 

 placed on the island; for a party of sixty or eighty men will soon 

 hunt over this small island, and discover every individual on it. 

 The meat is highly esteemed by the inhabitants ; we found it rather 

 tough and stringy ; but it makes excellent soup. 



" The tameness of the birds on the islands has been frequently 

 noticed ; it is certainly very remarkable, especially in Charles and 

 Cliatham Islands, which have been so long inhabited ; the small 

 birds of all kinds are so tame that they are easily knocked down 

 with a switch ; some of the men killed numbers of doves in this 

 manner. 



"The rocks at Iguana Cove were thickly covered with the hideous 

 black Iguanas mentioned by Admiral Fitzroy. We found them in 

 numbers at the other places we visited, but nowhere else so nume- 

 rous or so large in size. Here they were found to weigh from 20 

 to 22 lb., against 12 to 14 lb. from other localities." 



Mr. Frederick Selous, Jr., exhibited a series of horns of African 

 Rhinoceroses in illustration of Mr. Urummond'a paper read at the 

 last Meeting of the Society. 



These horns had been obtained in various localities in eastern 

 Africa, and consisted of the following specimens: — 



1. R. bicurnis major r^ . Shot at Tamasanka, Nov. 19, 187-4, 

 about lat. 19° 50' S., long 26° 10' E. 



2. R. bicornis major 2 • Shot near the river Gwai, September 

 1873, about lat. IS'' 50' S., long. 27° E. 



3. R. keitloa (^ . Shot on the southern edge of the marshes of 

 the Chebe river, August 28, 1874, about lat. 18° 30' S., long. 4" 

 50' E. 



4 . R. simus $ . Shot on the border of the hills between the 

 Gwai and Zambesi rivers, May 1874, about lat. 18° 40' S., long. 26° 

 30' E. 



5. R. simus 2- S'lot Oct. 1872, near the river Sech Wechive, 

 north-east of the Matabili country, about lat. 18° 30' S., long. 29° 

 50' E. 



6. R. simus J. Shot Nov. 15, 1874, about lat. 19° S., long. 

 2C° E. 



Mr. Sclater read the following extract from a letter addressed to 

 him by Mr. Albert L. C. Le Soeuf, Hon. Secretary of the Zoologi- 

 cal and Acclimatization Society of Melbourne, Australia: — 



" I send you the horn of a Deer we have in our gardens, and I 

 shall be much obliged if you can let me know what variety it is. 

 cannot find it described anywhere, although I do not doubt it will 

 be familiar to you. The Deer were sent here some years ago by Sir 

 Henry Barkly, from the Mauritius. In appearance it is like the 

 Sambur Deer, but smaller, say about three feet high or rather 



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