80 MR. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Feb. 13, 



at the same time been presented to the Society by Mr. II. 13. Cameron, 

 Superintendent of the R. W. I. M. S. P. Company at St. Thomas's. 

 The animals were undoubtedly referable to the common Green 

 Monkey (Cercopithecus cullitrichus, Geoffr.) of Western Africa, and 

 must have been introduced years ago, as they were stated to be now 

 very abundant in the woods of St. Kitts, and to cause great damage 

 to the sugar-plantations. 



Mr. Sclater also called the attention of the Meeting to several 

 recent additions to the Society's Menagerie. Amongst these were 

 particularly noted: — (1) A young male Sea-Bear (Otaria hookeri), 

 which had been captured on the sea-shore near Cape Horn, in the 

 month of June 1862, by a French sailor named Leconte, then serving 

 on board the ' Paulina ' of Buenos Ayres. A female captured shortly 



afterwards had not survived to reach Europe. M. Leconte had kept 

 the animal ever since, and had made an exhibition of it in various 

 parts of France and England. (2) A female Formosan Deer (Cervus 

 tuevanus), purchased for the Society in China by Mr. Swinhoe, and 

 more particularly acceptable, as a male of this fine new species had 

 been now for some time in the Menagerie without a mate. 



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Mr. Sclater exhibited part of a collection of Mammals and Birds 

 forwarded by Mr. Henry Whiteley from Japan, having been collected 

 in the vicinity of Nagasaki during the summer of 1865, and made 

 remarks upon some of the more interesting species contained in 

 it. Amongst these were examples of Mustela melampus, Temm., 



