280 ME. SCLATEB ON CONTINENTAL MENAGEEIES. [Apr. 19 



on what is certainly a larva, the float being collapsed as in some 

 of Dr. Fowler's young Scopeli" 



On behalf of the Hon. Walter Eothschild, F.Z.S., there was 

 exhibited a fine specimen of the Kibbou-fish, Begalecus argenteus (?), 

 which bad been mounted by Mr. E. Gerrard, Jr., for the Tring 

 Museum. The specimen bad been obtained alive in shallow water, 

 near Dimedin, New Zealand. It measm-ed about 14 feet 10 inches 

 in length. 



Mr. Sclater stated that he recently had the ])leasure of A'isiting 

 the small but well-kept Zoological Garden of Marseilles, under 

 the guidance of M. Alfred AVeil, the Director. Amongst the 

 animals observed there he had noticed the following of special 

 interest : — 



1. A fine adult male of the Leonine Macaque (Maeacus leoninus), 

 which had been several years in the Collection. It was stated to 

 have been brought from Siam. 



2. A not quite adult example of the Corean Sea-Eagle 

 {Haliaetus branicMi), in nearly uniform black plumage, with some 

 appearances of white at the base of the tail. Two of these 

 Eagles, of which this was the survivor, had been brought from 

 Seoul and presented to the Collection by a former Secretarj'^ of the 

 Eussian Embassy to Corea. 



3. A pair of Leucoryx Antelopes {Oryx leucoryx), recently 

 imported from Senegal. The Society had formerly had many 

 examples of this Antelope in the series, but of late years had not 

 possessed representatives of the species. The Leucoryx was much 

 less seldom brought to Eiu'ope now than in former years. 



During a short stay at Tunis Mr. Sclater had also, under the 

 kind guidance of Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., visited the private 

 collection of living animals belonging to the Bey of Tunis at the 

 palace at Marsa. Amongst the objects noted there were a pair of 

 the Barbary Deer (Cerinis harbarus), two (apparently) Golden 

 Eagles (Aqidla chri/saetos), remarkable for their dark, nearly black 

 plumage, and a single Loder's Gazelle (Gazella leptoceros)^ all 

 stated to have been obtained in the Bej'lik. There was likewise a 

 stuffed specimen of a young Leucoryx Antelope (Oryx leucoryx), 

 originally, it was said, received alive from the south of Tunis '. 



Returning by Paris, Mr. Sclater had passed an afternoon in the 

 Jardiu Zoologique d'Acclimatation de Bois du Boulogne, Paris, 

 w'here he had, as usual, seen much of interest. A single adult 

 male Giraffe of the old stock from the Soudan, born in the 

 Gardens 19 years ago, was still alive there, and apparently in 

 excellent health. In this specimen the third frontal horn was 



1 The formei' existence of the Oryx in Tunisia is also indicated by some of 

 the Roman mosaics preserved in the Musee Alaoul at the Bardo, among which 

 is an unmistakable figure of a Leucoryx attacked by a Lion. — P. L. S. 



