1889.] SIR E. G. LODER ON HAPLOCERTJS MONTANUS. 59 



had stated in a letter addressed to Mr. Sclater that this Antelope, 

 of which he had sent home specimens of the male, female, and 

 young male, is only found on the north side of the river Tana. The 

 Somalis informed Mr. Hunter that it extended along the coast up 

 to Kismayu. The Gaila name for this Antelope was said to be 

 "Haranta." Mr. Sclater hoped to be able to give a full description 

 of this animal at a subsequent meeting. 



Sir E. G. Loder, Bart., F.Z.S., exhibited a mounted skeleton of a 

 Rocky-Mountain Goat {Haplocerus montanus), and made the fol- 

 lowing remarks : — 



The Goat, a male, was shot by me September 1887 in the Rocky 

 Mountains, Montana, U.S., long. W. 113° 10', lat. N. 47° 30', 

 about 40 miles S.E. of Flat-head Lake. 



Although the animal lias been known to science for a long time, I 

 do not know whether there is a complete mounted skeleton in any 

 museum in the world. 



The bones of the skeleton of the Rocky-Mountain Goat are 

 accurately and minutely described by Sir John Richardson in the 

 •Zoology of the Voyage of the Herald,' published in 18.54. 

 A bad figure of the animal had previously been published by Rich- 

 ardson in ' Fauna Boreali- Americana ' in 1829. 



I think it possible that the present skeleton of the Rocky-Moun- 

 tain Goat is the first that has ever been mounted. Mr. Henry A. 

 "Ward of Rochester, U.S., tells me that he has never had one. 



This one will be preserved in my own collection, but I have two 

 others (both females), one of which I shall present to the Natural 

 History Museum, Cromwell Road, and the other to the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields. 



The chief peculiarity in the skeleton of the Rocky-Mountain Goat 

 is in the shortness of the metacarpal bone, which is only about 4 inches 



Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., exhibited a mounted specimen of his 

 Gacella thomsoni (Ann. N. H. ser. a, xiv. p. 427), obtained by 

 Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, F.Z.S., in Masailand, and pointed out its 

 differences from Gazella granti. 



The following papers were read : — 



