790 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Nov. 5, 



the same species of Parrakeet. These I determined as Loriculus 

 culacissi* ; and when Dr. Meyer showed me his bird I told him that 

 I believed it to be of that species. Dr. Meyer, however, was of a 

 different opinion, and in order to settle the question was kind enough 

 to allow me to examine the specimens of Loriculus in his collection 

 made in the Philippines. On comparing Dr. Meyer's skins with 

 the descriptions given in Dr. Finsch's monograph, I found that Dr. 

 Meyer was undoubtedly correct. Three species of Loriculus were 

 represented in his collection, namely L. culacissi from Luzon, L. re- 

 ffulus from Negros and Panay, and the present bird, which appeared 

 to be undescribed, from Cebu. Under these circumstances I sent a 

 short notice of the last-mentioned species to • The Ibis' for July last, 

 and proposed to call it L. chrysonotus, from its golden back y. 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of July 1872 was 122 ; of which 31 were by 

 birth, 57 by presentation, 17 by purchase, 5 by exchange, and 12 

 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 94. 



Almost the only arrival of special interest was twelve Natterer's 

 Bats {Vespertilio nattereri, Kuhl), presented, July 19th, by Lord 

 Lilford, F.Z.S. We vainly endeavoured to keep these animals alive 

 in captivity : they all died within a few days. 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of August 1872 was 115 ; of these, 20 were 

 by birth, 45 by presentation, 29 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 

 1 7 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removal, was 141. 



The most noticeable of the additions were : — 



1. A female two-homed Rhinoceros, stated to have been captured 

 in Malacca, purchased of Mr. W. Jamrach, August 2nd, for the sum of 

 s£600. As soon as this animal arrived in the Gardens it became obvious 

 that it was of a different species from the female two-horned Rhino- 

 ceros previously purchased of Mr. Jamrach^;, and that consequently 

 there must be two species of this form of Rhinoceros in existence. 



On reference to authorities it appeared evident to me that the 

 animal last received was the true R. sumatre?isis§ of previous writers. 



This might have been expected from the locality in which it was 

 obtained, the fauna of Malacca being notoriously similar to that of 

 Sumatra. 



Under these circumstances it became, in my opinion, necessary to 

 give a new name to the animal previously received from Chittagong ; 

 and in a communication made to Section D of the British Association 

 at Brighton on the 1 6th of August last, I accordingly proposed to 

 call it Rhinoceros lasiotis\\, from the peculiar long hairs which 



* See P. Z. S. 1871, p. 479, and Eev. List, of Vert. p. 202. 



t See Ibis, 1872, p. 323, pi. xi. J See anteh, p. 493, pi. xxiii. 



§ Rhinoceros sumatrensis of Cuvier, Eegne An. i. p. 240 (1817), founded on 

 Bell's description of an animal killed in Sumatra, published in Phil. Trans. 1793. 

 Baffles in 1820 named the same animal 7?. sumatranus (Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 268). 



|| See 'Times' of August 19, p. 5; and ' Athenaeum,' August 24, p. 243; 

 also •Nature,' October 24, p. 518. 



