734 DR. GiJNTHER ON SCHEDOPHILUS MEDUSOPHAGUS. [JuilC 21, 



river Umsengaisi, North-eastern Mashuna land, September 1880. 

 (Plate LXII. fig. 6.) 



(7) Black Rhinoceros, S • Shot by myself on the bank of the 

 river Chobe, August 1874. (Plate LXII. fig. 7.) 



(8) Black Rhinoceros, $ . Shot by one of my hunters between 

 the Umfule and Umzvvesvre rivers. North-eastern Mashuna land, 

 August 1880. (Plate LXII. fig. 8.) 



(9.) Black Rhinoceros, $. Shot by one of my hunters between 

 the Umfule and Umzweswe rivers, North-eastern Mashuna land, 

 September 1880. (Plate LXII. fig. 9.) 



June 2], 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 jnonth of May 1881 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of May was 130, of which 25 were by 

 birth, 53 by presentation, 35 by purchase, 13 were received on 

 deposit, and 4 by exchange. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 124. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of Mfiy were 

 as follows : — 



An African Wild Ass (Equus (cmiopits) from Upper Nubia, 

 purchased May 26th, being the second example of this form of Wild 

 Ass which we have received. 



A White-marked Duck {Anas specularis) from Antarctic America, 

 purchased May 26th, being the first specimen of this fine species 

 which has been obtained for the Collection. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of Podi- 

 lymbus podiceps of North America, stated to have been killed at 

 Radipole near Weymouth in January 1881, and belonging to the 

 collection of Mr. R. W. Monro. 



Dr. A. Giinther exhibited a specimen of a Mediterranean fish 

 {Schedophilus medusophagus) which had been captured in August 

 1878 at Portrush in Ireland, and read a description of it. 



This description, together with a figure coloured from a drawing of 

 the fish taken in a fresh state, will be published in the Society's 

 ' Transactions.' 



The following papers were read ; — 



