266 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [May 4, 
May 4, 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 April 1886 :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of April was 170, of which 83 were by 
presentation, 23 by purchase, 11 by birth, 11 were received in ex- 
change, and 42 on deposit. The total number of departures during 
the same period, by death and removals, was 119. 
Amongst these special attention was called to :— 
1. A fine example of a Lizard belonging to a new species of the 
genus Ctenosaura, which Mr. Boulenger described at the last meeting 
of the Society as Ctenosaura erythromelas (see above, p. 241), 
obtained by purchase April 3rd. 
The exact locality of the specimen, which was purchased of a 
dealer at Liverpool, could not unfortunately be ascertained ; but 
it is believed to be from some part of Central America. 
2. A fine male example of the Lesser Koodoo, Strepsiceros im- 
berbis, received in exchange from M. Cornély, of Tours, on April 7th. 
Having lost the female, M. Cornély was good enough to part 
with the male of this rare Antelope in our favour. The specimen in 
question was originally obtained by one of Mr. Hagenbeck’s collectors 
in Somali-land (see P. Z.S. 1884, pp. 45, 539). 
3. A young male two-horned Rhinoceros, received in exchange 
from the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, April 27th, and apparently 
referable to R. lasiotis, if this species is really distinct from R. suma- 
trensis. Dr. John Anderson, F.Z.S., has kindly favoured me with 
the subjoined note upon this interesting acquisition :— 
‘*The young male Rhinoceros, lately received from the Calcutta 
Zoological Gardens, was brought into Rangoon on the 27th of 
March, 1884, while I happened to be there on my way to Japan. 
The animal had been captured a day or two before in the Bassein 
district, close to the sea, and, when first seen by its captors, it was 
in the company of its mother. The mother, however, escaped, I 
was told, by plunging into the sea and swimming away, leaving her 
young one behind. I at once secured it for the Calcutta Zoological 
Gardens. When I saw it in Rangoon it was only about 2 feet high 
at the shoulder, and was evidently quite a baby. Its skin was 
smooth and pinkish, and thickly covered with pale yellowish-grey 
hairs, somewhat curly, and as soft as wool, except on the front of the 
legs, where it was blackish-brown and much coarser than elsewhere. 
The positions of the two horns were well-defined, although these 
structures were only feebly developed. From its general appearance 
I concluded at the time that it was R. dasiotis.”’ 
