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March 5, 1889. 

 Professor Flower, C.B., 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 1889: — 



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

 gerie during the month of February was 90, of which 62 were hy 

 presentation, 3 by birth, 16 by purchase, and 9 on deposit. The 

 total number of departures during the same period, by death and 

 removals, was 87- 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A collection of Reptiles from the Cape Colony, presented, as 

 have been many previous collections, by our Corresponding Member 

 the Rev. G. H" R. Fisk. Amongst these are seven specimens of 

 the new Tortoise, Homopus femoralis, lately described by Mr. Bou- 

 lenger (P. Z. S. 1888, p. 251, pi. xiv.), and two of Homopus signatus, 

 a species not previously received. 



2. Four Marbled Polecats {Putorius sarmaticus), obtained in the 

 vicinity of Quettah, presented by Col. Sir Oliver B. C. St. John, 

 K.C.S.I., R.E., F.Z.S., February 8th. 



This well-marked species is rare in most museums and quite new 

 to the Society's collection. 



3. A fine specimen of Owen's Apteryx {Apteryx oweni) from the 

 South Island of New Zealand, presented by Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, 

 C.M.Z.S., I9th February, 1889. 



It is now several years that specimens of the Apteryx have been 

 deficient to the collection. We are therefore very glad to receive the 

 present example from our excellent Correspondent. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on a spe- 

 cimen of the mammary region of a female of Myrmecobius fasciatus, 

 which showed four teats and a small embryo attached to each of them. 

 The animal had been obtained at Morgans on the N.W. bend of the 

 Murray River, and forwarded to Prof. Howes by Dr. E. Stirling, 

 Curator of the Adelaide Museum. 



Mr. O. Thomas exhibited a specimen of a new species of Muntjac, 

 recently discovered in the neighbourhood of Mount Mouleyit, Tenas- 

 serim, by Signor L. Fea, of the Museo Civico, Genoa, and proposed 

 to be called Cervulus fecB. This Muntjac differed from its nearest 

 ally G. crinifrons, Sclater \ by its unbushed forehead, shorter tail, 

 and by the presence of a white stripe down the front of its thighs. 



Mr. Arthur Thomson exhibited a series of Insects reared in the 



1 P.Z.8 1885, p. 1, pi. i. 

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