818 MR. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [NoV. 14, 



This Bear was imported into London in a vessel coming from 

 Northern China, and was stated to have been brought from the 

 interior of that country. Its general appearance was that of the 

 Brown Bear {U. arctos) ; but it was distinguishable by its broader 

 face, ears filled with long dense hair, and short beard. Dr. Gray 

 had proposed to found a new species on this example, and to call it 

 U7-SUS lasiotus* ; but Mr. Sclater regarded it as the same animal as 

 that figured by M. I. GeofFroy St.-Hilaire in the 'Zoology of the 

 Voyage of the Venus' (Mamm. t. 4) as "Ursus arctos, var. du 

 Kamschatka," upon which M. Pucheran had established his Ursus 

 piscator (Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 392). 



8. A Formosan Bear (Ursus fornwsanus, Swinhoe), obtained for 

 the Society by Mr. R. Swinhoe, and received September 24th. This 

 animal did not appear distinguishable externally from the Ursus 

 tibetmius of Northern India and China. 



Referring to this subject, Mr. Sclater read extracts from letters 

 received Irom Mr. R. Swinhoe, F.Z.S., dated British Consulate, 

 Amoy, June 10th and August Gth, 1867, stating that the Bear sent 

 by him to the Society in October 1866, and spoken of by the Secre- 

 tary (P. Z. S. 1866, p. 418) as typical of Ursus formosanus, Swinhoe, 

 was not from Formosa, but from the Port of Chefoo, on the Shan- 

 tung Promontory, in Northern China. It was, therefore, the species 

 referred to by Radde (Reisen in O. S. Siiug. p. 12) as Ursus tibe- 

 tanus, and not Ursus formosanus, which Mr. Swinhoe still regarded 

 as a good species. 



9. A female Swinhoe's Deer (Cervus swinhoii, Sclater) from For- 

 mosa, very acceptable as being the first female received of this spe- 

 cies. This animal had likewise been obtained for the Society by Mr. 

 Swinhoe, and received along with the Bear. 



1 0. Two pairs of the Japanese Teal {Querquedula formosa, Georgi), 

 purchased September 24th — an importation which it was hoped 

 would lead to the addition of this beautiful species to the list of ac- 

 climatizable "Waterfowl. 



11. A young specimen of the Great Ant-eater {Myrmecophaga 

 jubata) from Brazil, presented to the Society October 4th by Dr. 

 John A. Palin, C.M.Z.S., from Brazil. 



A second specimen of the same animal from Bogota had been pre- 

 sented to the Society by Percy Brandon, Esq., of Bogota, on the 

 8th of November. 



12. A young Cape Penguin {Spheniscus demersus (Linn.), pur- 

 chased October 26th, from the Cape. 



13. A Black-headed Partridge (Caccabis melanocephala, Riipp.), 

 from Abyssinia, purchased October 30th. 



14. A Bourke's Parrakeet {Euphema bourkii, Gould), purchased 

 October 30th. 



15. A young male ^Wrui, {Trichechus rostnarus, Linn.), purchased 

 on the 1st instant, of Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Co. of Dundee, 

 for the sum of ^^200. 



This animal had been captured in Davis's Straits by Captain 

 * Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. xx. p. 301. 



