PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 18, 1887. 

 Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D,, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1886 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of December was 89. Of these I was by 

 birth, 71 by presentation, 5 by purchase, 6 by exchange, and 6 on 

 deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 

 by death and removals, was 125. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A young male of the true Zebra, Equus zebra, purchased 

 December 1 1th, which fills a serious void in our collection of Equidse, 

 no specimens of this now rare animal having been received by the 

 Society since 1867. It would appear, however, from Mr. H. A. 

 Brydon's recent letter in the Field ^, that this animal is not yet, as 

 has been supposed, quite extinct in the Cape Colony. 



2. A young male of the larger Indian One-horned Rhinoceros 

 {Rhinoceros unicornis), presented by H.H. The Maharajah of 

 Cooch Behar, F.Z.S., through the kind intervention of Dr. B. 



' Mr. H. A. Brydon says : — " The true Zebra, the Equus montamis, the hippo- 

 tigris of the ancients, the dhow of the Hottentots, and the wilde paard (wild 

 horse) of the Cape Dutch, is purely and essentially a mountain-abiding animal. 

 It inhabits the most remote and rugged ranges of the Cape Colony ; and at the 

 present time, though sadly reduced in numbers and in the limits of its occur- 

 rence, it may be found in the Sneewenburg, the Zwaart Euggens, the Zwartberg, 

 and Winterhoek mountains, and in one or two other localities, in the Eastern 

 Province. Quite recently a troop was running on the slopes of the Cockscomb, 

 the highest peak (6000 feet in height) of the Winterhoek."— 2%e Field, vol. 

 Ixviii. p. 816, Dec. 4, 1886. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1887, NoJ[.. 1 



