224 DR.P.L.SCLATERON ANIMALS LIVING AT AMSTERDAM. [June 9, 



Fam. Anatid.e. 



132. Dendrocygna arcuata (Cuv.). 



This small Duck is very common here on the marshes. They are 

 very wild and difficult to shoot, but excellent eating. Taken young, 

 they become very tame, and breed in confinement, freely associating 

 with other poultry ; but they are excessively pugnacious, and tyran- 

 nize even over the geese. 



Fam. Larid^. 



133. Gelochelidon anglica (Mont.). (Simhangan.) 



Of course a sea-bird, though shot in a freshwater marsh, where I 

 had observed it some days flying over the water like a Swallow. 



134. Sternula minuta (Linn.). 

 Procured in the same place. 



June 9th, 1863. 

 John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Dr. Sclater made some observations on some of the interesting 

 species of animals he had seen during a visit he had just paid to the 

 Zoological Gardens of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Antwerp. 

 Amongst other species not yet received in this Society's collection, 

 but of which examples were exhibited in the sister establishments, 

 he called particular attention to 



1. Cervus equinus — the Bornean Deer of the Rusine type, of 

 which several specim.ens were in the Amsterdam Gardens, and which 

 appeared readily distinguishable from the Cervus rusa of Java by its 

 darker colour, shorter hair, and the stouter antlers of the male. 



2. Cervus kuhlii — the smallest species of the same section of the 

 genus, from the Bavian Islands. 



The Amsterdam Society now possessed both sexes of this little 

 Deer, which was breeding with them readily. It resembled in size 

 and general appearance Cervus porcinus of India, but was absolutely 

 without spots, even in its youngest stage, and easily distinguishable 

 in other ways. 



3. Cervus nemorivagus of Surinam, of which he had succeeded in 

 obtaining a pair from Mr. Westernian for the Society's Menagerie. 



4. Lagostomus trichodacfylus, a well-known American Rodent from 

 the Pampas, of which he had seen a living example for the first time 

 in Amsterdam. 



5. Cathartes urubitinga, Natt. MS. (v. Pelz. Sitz. Wien. Ak. 



