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1870.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 2 
May 12, 1870. 
Professor Newton, V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read notices of the more important additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of April, and called particular 
attention to :— 
1. A female Rusine Deer, purchased April 13th, and stated to 
have been received from the Philippines. 
The Rusine form of Deer of the Philippines was still very imper- 
fectly known. The present animal was of small size, about equalling 
that of the Hog-deer (C. porcinus), but more slender in form. It 
was very dark in colour, being of a nearly uniform dark brown ; the 
ears short and rather rounded, apparently naked on the outside. 
Round the eye was a pale mark; the tail beneath and insides of 
thighs were white; and the white metatarsal gland-patches were 
very prominent. 
This Deer had been for the present designated Cervus marianus— 
the Deer of the Marianne Islands (upon which this term had been 
founded by Desmarest), having been stated to have been introduced 
into those islands from the Philippines *. 
2. A Jackal, purchased April Ist, and stated to have been brought 
from the River Fernand Vas, south of the Gaboon, and to be the 
animal referred to in Du Chaillu’s ‘Explorations and Adventures in 
Equatorial Africa’ (p. 243) in the following passage : — 
“* Before we got to town again I shot a Mboyo, a very shy animal 
of the Wolf kind, with long yellowish hair and straight ears. I 
have often watched these beasts surrounding and chasing small game 
for themselves. The drove runs very well together; and as their 
policy is to run round and round, they soon bewilder, tire out, and 
capture any animal of moderate endurance.” 
Mr. Sclater stated that he had in vain endeavoured to find a name 
for this very distinctly marked species of the genus Canis. There 
did not appear to be any specimen at all resembling it in the British 
Museum. It was not possible to describe it accurately from the 
living individual ; but the animal appeared to be at once distinguish- 
able from every described species of the genus by the black and 
white stripe extending along the flanks, and the very long black tail 
with a distinct white termination. Mr. Sclater proposed as a tem- 
porary designation for this species the name of the Side-striped 
Jackal (Canis lateralis), and exhibited a drawing by M. Keulemans 
(Plate XXIII.) representing it. Its general size and appearance was 
that of the Black-backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas), from which, 
however, it was readily recognizable by its sharper and more pointed 
snout, the distinct side-stripes, and the long, white-tipped tail. 
* See Quoy et Gaim. Zool. Voy. Uranie, p. 33. 
+ Since this notice was written I have received a letter from Dr. Peters (to 
whom I had sent a copy of the number of the ‘Illustrated London News’ of 
April 30th, containing a figure of this animal, p. 465), suggesting that the species 
