l/G ANIMALS COMMENSAL OR PARASITIC [Apr. 6, 



April 6, 1886. 

 Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.I)., F.R.S., President, iii the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1886 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of March was 121. Of these 6 were by 

 birth, .58 by presentation, 11 by purchase, 1 by exchange and 45 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 127. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A second specimen of the Rough-billed Pelican of North 

 America (Pelecanus trachyrhynchus) ', purchased March 2nd. 



2. An example of the White-tailed Ichneumon {Herpestes albi- 

 cauda) from Lamoo, East Africa, presented by V. J. Jackson, Esq., 

 F.Z.S., March 4th. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of J. B. Martin, Esq., F.Z.S., 

 a large tusk of the Indian Elephant {Elephas hidicus) belonging to 

 the executors of the late Charles Reade, of which the length was 

 stated to be 6 feet, and the weight over 100 pounds. The tusk 

 was stated to have belonged to a " rogue Elephant" which had only 

 one tusk, and which had been killed at Goruckpore in 183(), when 

 the late Charles Reade was magistrate there. 



Mr, Sclater exhibited the heads and horns of two species of 

 Antelopes received by Lord Walsingliam from Mr. F. J. Jackson, 

 F.Z.S., having been obtained in the vicinity of Lamoo, East Africa. 

 One of these belong to an adult si)ecimen of Strcpsiceros imberbis, 

 Blyth ; the two others to DaniaHs seTieyaleiisis, which, so far as 

 Mr. Sclater knew, had not been previously obtained in this district. 

 Strepsiceros imberbis had been already met with as far soutli as the 

 Juba River on this coast ". 



Dr. H. Woodward exhibited specimens of animals commensal 

 or parasitic in the shell of Meleagrina murgaritifera, the Pearl- 

 mussel, from the north coast of Australia, and read the following 

 notes : — 



" The Pearl-shell fishery is now a recognized and important brancii 

 of the commerce of Western Australia, and also of Queensland and 

 South A.ustralia, which Colonies own the rights of the northern 

 shores of that vast continent. 



" Mr. Thomas Harry Haynes has given me much interesting 

 information regarding the pearl-shell fishery carried on by him and 



' For notice of previous specimen see P. Z. S. 1883, p. 4()3, plate xlvi. 

 2 See P. Z. S. 1884. p. 45. 



