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quite agree with the skull of Felis warwickii, which is that of a very 
old individual, being rather shorter (total length from end of pre- 
maxilla to occipital foramen 3:7 inches instead of 4 inches) and con- 
siderably narrower in proportion (being only 2°6 inches in extreme 
width of the zygomata instead of 3:1 inches). But I believe there 
is considerable variation in the skulls of most species of the genus 
Felis. 
Felis geoffroii seems to be nearly allied to the Ocelot (Felis par- 
dalis); and I cannot understand what claims it has to be regarded 
as forming a distinct genus. 
Dr. Gray refers to his “ Pardalina warwickii”’ Sir William Jar- 
dine’s figure of Felis himalayanus in the ‘ Naturalist’s Library’ 
(vol. xvi. pl. 24*), stating that the figure in question was taken 
‘from the specimen in the Surrey Zoological Gardens.” But Sir 
William Jardine expressly says that his figure of “‘ Felis himalayanus” 
is a copy of a drawing by Mr. Lear, taken from a “skin received 
from the Himalayan district of India ;’’ and there can be no doubt, I 
think, that it represents the Viverrine Cat (Felis viverrina, Bennett) 
of India, of which it is, indeed, a very fair representation. 
3. Two Spider Monkeys, purchased October 14th, and stated to 
have been brought from Nicaragua. One of these belongs to the 
species called in the Catalogue of Vertebrates (ed. iv. p. 8) Ateles 
Srontatus, Gray +t, which we have more than once received from 
the same localityt. The second Spider Monkey, which has since 
died, and of which I now exhibit the stuffed skin, is apparently of 
a different species, and unknown to me. There is, however, a 
similar example in the British Museum, which is, as I am informed 
by Mr. Gerrard, the type of a proposed new species of Dr. Gray 
(Ateles ornatus), to be described in a forthcoming Catalogue of the 
Quadrumana. 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of November was 32, of which 1 was by 
birth, 16 by presentation, 7 by exchange, and 8 were animals re- 
ceived on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 
period, by death and removals, was 118. 
Amongst the acquisitions the only animal worth remark was a 
female of the Antarctic Wolf (Canis antarcticus), received Novem- 
ber 8th. Mr. H. Byng, the acting colonial secretary of this colony, 
kindly forwarded a pair of these animals as a present to the Society’s 
Menagerie; but one only survived to reach the Society’s Gardens. 
Mr. Byng states that, as Mr. Darwin (Zool. Voy. Beagle, ii. p. 10) 
prophesied would probably be the case, this animal, formerly so 
common, has now become almost extinct in the Falklands, the de- 
predations it commits upon the Sheep having rendered its extirpation 
necessary. The only previous specimen of this animal, as far as I 
know, was that brought home by Lecomte in 1868 (see P. Z. S. 
1868, p. 529). 
+ Brachyteles frontatus, Gray, Voy. Sulphur, Mamm. p. 9, pl. 1. 
t See P. Z. 8. 1862, p. 186. 
