354 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON DAMA.LIS SENEGALENSIS. [May 6, 



May 6, 1890. 

 Prof. Flower, C.B., 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 April 1890 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of April was 104, of which 36 were by 

 presentation, 3 by birth, 4G by purchase, 1 was received in exchange, 

 and 18 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 71. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be called to: — 



Two specimens of Simony's Lizard (Lacerta simonyi) from the 

 lonely rock of Zalmo, near the island of Ferro, Canaries. This is a 

 rare Lizard lately described by Dr. Steindachiier (Anz. k. Ak. Wiss. 

 Wien, 1889, p. 2G0), and only known from this spot, where it is 

 said to subsist on crabs. These specimens were obtained by Canon 

 Tristram, F.R.S., during his recent visit to the Canaries, and were 

 presented to the Society by Lord Lilford. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon the stuffed head of 

 an Antelope, sent to him for identification by Mrs. Montgomerie, of 

 Hunston House, Ware, Herts. 



The specimen had been shot by Commander R. A. J. Mont- 

 gomerie, R.N., of H.M.S. ' Boadicea,' on or about the 16th June, 

 1889, when on a shooting^excursion about four days inland from 

 MaHmdi, on the East-African coast, north of Zanzibar. It was 

 observed, along with several others like it, amongst a herd of 

 Zebras. 



Mr. Sclater referred this head to what is commonly called the 

 Korrigum Antelope (Damalis senegalensis), and made the following 

 remarks : — 



The Korrigum is a fine and conspicuous Antelope, well figured in 

 the ' Knowsley Menagerie' (tab. xxi.) from specimens formerly 

 living at Knowsley ; but it is still rare and little known in Europe. 

 I have never seen living specimens during my long experience 

 among Zoological Gardens, and there is no example of its skin in 

 the British Museum, where it is only represented by a series of 

 skulls and horns*. 



The Korrigum appears to have a wide distribution across Central 

 Africa from Senegal through the interior to Sennaar and Somali- 

 Land. Whether it is really the " Koba '' of Buffon, upon which 

 the term senegalensis whs originally founded by Desmarest, seems 

 to be uncertain, but it is certainly the Damalis senegalensis of Gray; 

 and there is no doubt that it occurs in Senegal, whence living 



' There are two stuifecl specimens in the Derby Museum, Liver]jool, as Mr. 

 T. Moore kindly informs me, no doubt the animals formerly living in the 

 Knowsley Menagerie. 



