PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 6, 1891. 

 Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1890: — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December 1890 were 62 in number. Of these 52 were 

 acquired by presentation, 2 by purchase, 1 by exchange, 2 were born 

 in the Gardens, and 5 were received on deposit. The total number 

 of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 81. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited some sketches made by Lieut. "W. E. Stairs, 

 R.E., of the horns of a large Antelope, apparently unknown to science, 

 which had been met with by the Emin-Pasha Relief Expedition 

 in the forest-district of the Aruwimi. When the Antelope was 

 first mentioned to him by Lieut. Stairs, Mr. Sclater supposed it 

 might be the Antilope triangularis lately described by Dr. Giinther 

 (P. Z. S. 1889, p. 74). On calling Lieut. Stairs's attention to this 

 figure and description, he sent the following remarks in reply : — 



" The drawings of the horns of Antilope triangularis in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ' bear but very little resemblance to those of the Antelope I 

 spoke of. The description is also evidently not that of the animal in 

 question. The length of horns of my Antelope, judging from three 

 different specimens, would average about 26 inches. The horns are 

 brown, not black, or, more strictly speaking, are of the colour of 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1891, No. I. 1 



