PROCEEDINGS 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 19, 18S6. 

 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 the month of December 1885 : — 



The total number of ret!;istered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of December was 157. Of these 2 were by 

 birth, 137 by presentation, 2 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 14 on 

 deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 

 by death and removals, was 116. 

 ' The most noticeable additions duriug the month were : — 



1. A male Cheetah (Ci/ncBlurus jubatus), received December 8th, 

 presented to the Society by Nawab Mirza Hassim Ah Khan, of the 

 Afghan Frontier Survey. A pair of feline animals captured, in 

 November 1884, near the Istoi Pass on the Perso-Afghan frontier, 

 when quite young, after the mother had been shot, by some of the 

 members of the Afghan Boundary Commission, were believed at the 

 time to be Snow-Leopards (Fe'tis unria) \ and were forwarded to 

 Pisheen, where they were kindly kept through last summer by Mr. 

 H. J. Barnes, Pohtical Agent at Quetta. The survivor of them, 

 having arrived in this country, proves to be not a Snow-Leopard, but 

 a fine young male Cheetah {Cyncelurus jubatus). 



The Cheetah was well known to occur in Persia (see Blauford's 

 ' Eastern Persia,' vol. ii. p. 35), but I am not aware that its occurrence 

 so near the frontiers of Afghanistan has been actually recorded. 



2. A young female Tiger, dej)osited hy J. E. T. Aitchison, Esq., 



1 See Sir Peter Lumsden's letter, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 610. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 188ti, No. I. 1 



