796 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [| Dec. 6, 
December 6, 1870. 
R. Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the months of October and November, 
1870 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of October was 71, of which 2 were by 
birth, 47 by presentation, 5 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 13 
were animals received on deposit. The total number of departures 
during the same period, by death and removals, was 108. 
The more remarkable animals among the acquisitions were :— 
1. Two Red-tailed Guans (Ortalida ruficauda) from Tobago, 
received October 4th, having been presented to the Society by the 
Hon. W. J. Buhét, M.D., M.R.C.S., of that island. These are 
the first examples of this Guan ever received alive by the Society, 
but were in very poor condition when they arrived. One has since 
died ; but the other seems likely to recover. 
2. A fine specimen of Geoffroy’s Cat (Melis geoffroii), purchased 
October 10th of Capt. E. Hairby, by whom it was brought from 
Buenos Ayres, with the information that it had been obtained from 
Paraguay. On the arrival of this animal I identified it from memory 
with a specimen I had seen in the British Museum, upon which Dr. 
Gray had established his Leopardus himalayanus (List of Mamm. 
in B. M. p. 44), and of which he afterwards made a new genus 
and species under the name Pardalina warwickii*. Mr. Bartlett, 
having examined the specimen in the British Museum, confirmed 
my opinion; and I accordingly entered the animal on the register as 
Warwick’s Cat (Felis warwickiit). 
The so-called Felis warwickii being now dead, I have been able 
to examine it more carefully, and find it to belong to a well-known 
South-American species—Felis geoffroti of D’Orbigny and Gervais. 
This Cat was discovered by D’Orbigny on the Rio Negro, and is well 
figured and described in the ‘ Magasin de Zoologie’ (1844, Mamm. 
pl. 57), and in D’Orbigny’s ‘ Voyage’ (Mamm. p. 25, tab. 14). In 
the latter work the skull is also figured (pl. 13. figs. 1, 1*). Bur- 
meister (La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 397) tells us that it is found all over 
the Argentine Republic in the more wooded districts. The native 
name is ‘“‘Gato montese’’—the Felis pajeros, which we have also 
lately received alive (cf. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 530) being designated as 
the ‘‘Gato de la pampa.” 
I have now also myself compared our specimen with the original 
of Pardalina warwickii in the British Museum, and have no doubt 
of their belonging to the same species. ‘The skull of our specimen, 
which was a young although fully grown animal, does not, however, 
* Cat. Carn., Pach., and Edentate Mamm. p. 14 (1869). 
t See ‘Field’ for 22nd October, 1870, p. 349. 
