176 ANIMALS COMMENSAL OR PARASITIC [Apr. 6, 
April 6, 1886. 
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 March 1886 :— 
_ The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of March was 121. Of these 6 were by 
birth, 58 by presentation, 11 by purchase, 1 by exchange and 45 were 
received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 
period, by death and removals, was 127. 
The most noticeable additions during the month were :— 
1. A second specimen of the Rough-billed Pelican of North 
America (Pelecanus trachyrhynchus)', purchased March 2nd. 
2. An example of the White-tailed Ichneumon (Herpestes albi- 
cauda) from Lamoo, East Africa, presented by F. J. Jackson, Esq., 
F.Z.S., March 4th. 
The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of J. B. Martin, Esq., F.Z.S., 
a large tusk of the Indian Elephant (E/ephas indicus) belonging to 
the executors of the late Charles Reade, of which the length was 
stated to be 6 feet, and the weight over 100 pounds. The tusk 
was stated to have belonged to a ‘‘ rogue Elephant” which had ouly 
one tusk, and which had been killed at Goruckpore in 1836, when 
the late Charles Reade was magistrate there. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited the heads and horns of two species of 
Antelopes received by Lord Walsingham from Mr, F. J. Jackson, 
F.Z.8., having been obtained in the vicinity of Lamoo, East Africa. 
One of these belong to an adult specimen of Strepsiceros imberbis, 
Blyth; the two others to Damalis senegalensis, which, so far as 
Mr. Sclater knew, had not been previously obtained in this district. 
Strepsiceros imberbis had been already met with as far south as the 
Juba River on this coast *. 
Dr. H. Woodward exhibited specimens of animals commensal 
or parasitic in the shell of Meleagrina margaritifera, the Pearl- 
mussel, from the north coast of Australia, and read the following 
notes :— 
« The Pearl-shell fishery is now a recognized and important branch 
of the commerce of Western Australia, and also of Queensland and 
South Australia, which Colonies own the rights of the northern 
shores of that vast continent. 
“Mr. Thomas Harry Haynes has given me much interesting 
information regarding the pearl-shell fishery carried on by him and 
? For uotice of previous specimen see P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 4638, plate xlyi. 
2 See P. Z. 8S. 1884, p. 45. 
