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1870.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 663 
November 1, 1870. 
Professor Newton, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following reports on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and 
September, 1870 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of June 1870 was 195, of which 47 were by 
birth, 31 by presentation, 84 by purchase, 13 by exchange, and 20 
were animals received on deposit. The total number of departures 
during the same period, by death and removals, was 121. Amongst 
the additions the most remarkable were :— 
1. Two Australian Sacred Ibises (Idis strictipennis, Gould, B. 
Austr. vi. pl. 46), purchased June 13th. 
The acquisition of these two birds is of much interest, as enabling 
the naturalist to compare together living examples of the four closely 
allied forms of Sacred Ibis—Jbis ethiopica of Africa, I. bernieri of 
Madagascar*, J. melanocephala of S. Asia, and I. strictipennis of 
Australia. 
2. A male Leonine Monkey (Macacus leoninus), purchased June 
14th from a London dealer. 
In July 1869 we obtained by presentation from Capt. R. A. 
Brown, as already recorded in these ‘ Proceedings’ (1869, p. 467), 
a female Macaque Monkey, which had been brought by H.M.S. 
‘ Vigilant’ from the Andaman Islands. In a notice of the habits of 
this Monkey, published in ‘Land and Water’ of July 24th, Mr. 
Bartlett, considering the species to be undescribed, proposed to call 
it Macacus andamanensis (Land and Water, viii. p. 57), which name, 
I observed in my above-mentioned notice of it in the Society’s 
‘ Proceedings,’ “‘ would stand if the validity of the species should 
be confirmed by future researches.” ‘Andaman Jenny,”’ as this 
Monkey was called, has attracted considerable attention amongst the 
visitors to the Society’s Gardens by smoking pipes anid playing other 
extraordinary tricks, of which Mr. Bartlett has given an account in 
the article above referred to. Her fame having reached as far as the 
islands from which she was brought, Capt. Hamilton, commanding 
a detachment there, was induced to write to Dr. E. Hamilton, F.Z.S., 
to inform him that it was an error to suppose that “Andaman Jenny”’ 
was really a native of these islands, she and several companions 
of the same species having been brought over to Ross Island, one of 
the Andamans, from the adjacent mainland of Burmah+. ‘Thus it 
appeared that, even if Mr. Bartlett was right in referring this 
Monkey to a new species (of which, I confess, I had at the time 
serious doubts), his name would require alteration. The matter 
stood thus until June last, when Mr. Bartlett informed me one 
* On the distinctness of this form from L. ethiopica, see my remarks, P, Z. 8, 
1870, p. 381, 
+ Cf. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 220. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1870, No. XLV. 
