186 DR. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [June 24, 
May (continued). 
1 Diana Monkey........+++- Cercopithecus diana ...... 
1 Yellow Wagtail ......... Motacilla rayi 
12 Tree-Frogs ......seeserees Ayla viridis ...cccccescecee 
1 Capromys........sscecesees Capromys brachyurus ... 
ZL Turkey <...00..-c00s.seccees Meleagris gallopavo ...... 
1 Indian Rock-Snake ...... Python regius ..rcccceeees 
1 Spectacle Cobra ......... Naia tripudians ......046 
2 Guillemots ...-+e..ceeeeee ria. trotlle vi csvessisacs ee 
2 Razor-bills ...cccceseceees Alca torda........... Seee ase 
2 Pufiins ..... aacanenss ..|Fratercula arctica ...... sins = 
4 Kingfishers ...... was cress Alcedo ispida,.......s00e++ 
1 Blood-rumped Parrakeet,| Psephotus hematonotus .. 
male. 
4 African Waxbills.......,. Estrelda cinerea ...s.0+0s 
2 Black-headed Finches...|4madina cucullata ...... 
1 Echidna’ .....0....secosese Echidna hystrix ...e.000- 
5 Indian Pastors........+++- Pastor malabaricus ...... 
2 Punjaub Wild Sheep ...|Ovis cycloceros ..........+- 
3 Silver Foxes...........000- Canis argentatus ......... Born. 
SD WOLVES s<-cccs--vecssvespens Tupi: eee thek. tees. 
6 Pintail Ducks ............ Dafila acuta .........:0000 Ae | 
13 Sonnerat’s Jungle-Fowls| Gallus sonneratit .....00+ 
(hybrids). Hatched. 
3 Ashy-headed Geese...... Chloéphaga poliocephala . 
Of these, Tropidolepisma majus and Pastor malabaricus were stated 
to have been exhibited for the first time. 
June 24, 1862. 
E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 
Dr. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to some interesting 
additions lately made to the Society’s Menagerie. These were— 
1. Two Spider Monkeys, purchased of Mr. Edward Greey, of the 
Royal Mail Company’s Service. These Monkeys had been obtained 
by Mr. Greey on the Rana River, Gorgon Bay, near San Juan del 
Norte, in Nicaragua. They appeared referable to two different spe- 
cies: —Ateles frontatus, Gray | Brachyteles (Hriodes) frontatus, Gray, 
Zool. Voy. Sulphur], smaller and parti-coloured; and Ateles hy- 
bridus, I. G. St.-Hil., larger and of the same form, greyish brown. 
The former species had been already noticed as occurring in Central 
America*; the latter was generally considered to be a New-Grana- 
dian species. 
2. Two young Bears brought from Japan and deposited in the 
Gardens by Captain Ward. The only Bear hitherto recorded as 
* See the article “On the Northern Limit of the Quadrumana in the New 
World,” in Nat. Hist. Review, 1861, p. 507. 
