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March 15, 1881. 

 Prof. 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 February 1881 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the mouth of February was 60, of which 1 was by 

 birth, 24 by presentation, 23 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 

 10 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 95. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of February 

 were as follows : — 



1. A female Bactrian Camel {Camelus bactrianus), formerly 

 belonging to Ayoub Khan, which Col. O. H. St. John, F.Z.S., has 

 purchased from its capturers at Kandahar and presented to the 

 Society. 



2. A male Wild Sheep, obtained from Afghanistan, and presented 

 to the Society by Capt. W. Cotton, F.Z.S. I had at first registered 

 this animal as Ovis cycloceros, not knowing where else to refer it, 

 although it obviously deviated somewhat in the more open and back- 

 ward curvature of the horns from the ordinary character of that 

 species. But Mr. Blanford has pointed out to me that it clearly 

 belongs to the Afghan form of this species, lately described and 

 figured by Mr. Hume as Ovis blanfordi^. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited a specimen of the so-called 

 Sabine's Snipe (Scolopax sabinii. Vigors), which had been shot by 

 the Hon. W. W. Palmer, at Woolmer Pond, near Selbourne, Hants. 

 This form was now well understood to be a melanoid variety of the 

 Common Snipe {Gallinugo scolopacina). 



Mr. A. G. More exhibited some eggs of the Red-necked Phala- 

 rope {Pkalaropus liyperboreus), believed to have been taken in Eng- 

 land, and an egg of the Tree-Pipit {Anthiis arboreus}, taken near 

 Dublin, this bird having been considered only doubtfully Irish. 

 Mr. More also exhibited a specimen of the Red-crested Pochard 

 {Fuligula rufind), obtained near Tralee, being the first instance on 

 record of the occurrence of this species in Ireland. 



The following papers were read : — 



' J. A. S. B. xlvi. pt. 2, p. 327 (1877). 



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