PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

January 13, 1870. 
John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to certain addi- 
tions to the Society’s Menagerie during the months of November 
and December last. These were :— 
1. Six Water-tortoises (Hmys), presented by the Rev. Basil Wil- 
berforce, November 27th. Upon being taken to the British Museum 
for identification, four of these animals proved to belong to a new 
species, which had been described by Dr. Gray at the Society’s 
Meeting in December under the name Emys flavipes* ; and the two 
others to a species described by Dr. Gray at the Society’s Meeting 
on the 11th of November as Mauremys laniariat. It was unfortu- 
nate that Mr. Wilberforce was unable to state the localities of these 
specimens, which had been purchased from various dealers during 
the last ten years, some of them having been in his possession for the 
whole of that period. 
2. A specimen of a rare American Monkey, the Ouakari (Bra- 
chyurus ouacari, Spix), obtained from the forests of the Rio Negro 
by Lewis Joel, Esq., C.M.Z.S., H.B.M. Vice-Consul at Ciudad 
Bolivar, Venezuela, and deposited in the Society’s Gardens by Mrs. 
Joel, December 16th. One specimen of this Monkey had been pre- 
viously living in the Society’s Gardens, in 1847, an original drawing 
* P. Z. 8. 1869, p- 643. Tt P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 499. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1870, No. I. 
