PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 9, 1866. 



Alfred Newton, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to the young 

 male Gayal (Bos frontalis, Lambert), just added to the Society's 

 Menagerie. A pair of this fine species of Bovine animal had been 

 shipped at Calcutta for the Society by their Corresponding Member, 

 the Babu Rajendra Mullick ; but the female had unfortunately died 

 upon the passage. A drawing by Mr. Wolf (Plate I.) was exhibited, 

 representing this interesting animal. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater remarked that it seemed now to be quite certain 

 that the White-whiskered Lemur, described and figured by Mr. 

 Bartlett (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 347, pi. xli.) under the name Lemur leuco- 

 mystax, was the female of the Black Lemur (Lemur macaco, Gm.). 

 The Society's Menagerie now contained a male and two females of this 

 species, including the original type of Lemur leucomystax, purchased 

 in 1861. Dr. Brehm, Director of the Zoological Gardens, Hamburg, 

 had first called Mr. Sclater's attention to the fact that the Black 

 Lemurs were always males, and the White-whiskered ones females, 

 such being the case in the Hamburg Gardens (which contained in 

 August last two males and a female of this species) as well as in this 

 Society's Gardens. The matter, however, had been definitely set at 

 rest by two enterprising Dutch travellers, MM. Pollen and Van Dam, 

 who, during their recent excursion into North-western Madagascar, 



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