PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SO Y OF LONDON. 
a Sy. 
January 19, 1836. 
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 1885 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
erie during the month cf December was 157. Of these 2 were by 
birth, 137 by presentation, 2 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 14 on 
deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 
by death and removals, was 116. 
The most noticeable additions during the month were :— 
1. A male Cheetah (Cynelurus jubatus), received December 8th, 
presented to the Society by Nawab Mirza Hassim Ali Khan, of the 
Afghan Frontier Survey. A pair of feline avimals captured, in 
November 1884, near the Istoi Pass on the Perso-Afghan frontier, 
when quite young, after the mother had been shot, by some of the 
members of the Afghan Boundary Commission, were believed at the 
time to be Snow-Leopards (Felis uncia)', and were forwarded to 
Pisheen, where they were kindly kept through last summer by Mr. 
H. J. Barnes, Political Agent at Quetta. The survivor of them, 
having arrived in this country, proves to be not a Snow-Leopard, but 
a fine young male Cheetah (Cynclurus jubatus). 
The Cheetah was well known to occur in Persia (see Blanford’s 
‘Kastern Persia,’ vol. ii. p. 35), but I am not aware that its occurrence 
so near the frontiers of Afghanistan has been actually recorded. 
2. A young female Tiger, deposited by J. E. T. Aitchison, Esq., 
1 See Sir Peter Lumsden’s letter, P. Z.8. 1885, p. GLO. 
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