526 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [NoV. 12, 



November 12, 1868. 



Professor Alfred Newton, F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater read notices of the more important additions 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, 

 August, September, and October, amongst which were : — 



1. A pair of the beautiful Green Hunting-Crow of Northern 

 India (Cissa venatoria), purchased June 2nd, and beheved to be the 

 first two examples of this form received alive in Europe. 



2. An Australian Fruit-Bat {Pteropus poliocephalus, Temminck), 

 from New South Wales, presented by H.R.H. the Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, July 4th. 



3. A young male Koodoo Antelope {Strepsiceros kudu), pur- 

 chased July 16th out of a large collection of living animals made by 

 M. Casanova in the vicinity of Casala, Lower Nubia. 



4. A young female of the Spanish Ibex {Gapra pyrenaica, 

 Schiniper), presented by Major Howard Irby, August 10th, being 

 the specimen alluded to a7itea, p. 403. Another correspondent of the 

 Society had promised to supply a male of this interesting species. 



5. A very fine young female of the Hoolock Gibbon {Hylobates 

 hoolock), presented by Mr. A. Grote, F.Z.S., August 14th, who had 

 communicated the following note respecting this animal: — 



" This Hoolock was sent to me early in 1867, by Mrs. Driver, of 

 Gowalpara, a civil station on the western border of the Assam pro- 

 vince. The animal is common in the jungles of the Gowalpara 

 district, on the left bank of the Barhampooter ; and its young are 

 frequently captured by the natives and brought into the station, 

 though, being impatient of confinement, they are not usually, so far 

 as I can learn, kept alive for any time. Those which are sent down 

 to Calcutta seem very sensitive to the change of climate, and are 

 generally carried off by pulmonary disease. The individual which 

 I brought home was attacked within a week of her reaching me at 

 Alipore, and would probably have succumbed but for the unre- 

 mitting attention of Dr. John Anderson, the Society's agent in 

 Calcutta, to whom I had made her over. She was for more than a 

 year in the Botanic Gardens, and, being allowed a good deal of 

 liberty there, kept her health very well. She has grown consider- 

 ably since she was first sent down to me. 



" Both this species and the Hylobates lar of Tenasserim are ex- 

 ceedingly gentle, and rarely, if ever, bite in anger. There is a good 

 account of an individual of the latter species by Mr. H. Blanford in 

 a recent number of the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.' 

 It differs in external appearance from the Gibbon in having a whitish- 

 grey fringe round the face, and is incapable of shouting. The 

 Hoolock owes its native name to its loud and peculiar voice." 



6. A specimen of the Large White Crane of Upper India {Grus 

 leucogeranos), presented by the Babu Rajendra MuUick, of Calcutta, 

 C.M.Z.S., August 14tli. 



