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The latter (originally received from Oran, Algeria) is no doubt of 

 unusually small dimensions. 



The "Queen's Ostrich" was procured by Mr. "Williams, of 

 Sierra Leone, during a recent expedition to the dominions of King 

 Samory (or Samadou), about 700 miles in the interior from Free- 

 town ', in the basin of the Upper Niger, for Mr. Alfred L. Jones of 

 Oaklands, Aigburth (at whose expense the expedition was organized), 

 and offered by Mr. Jones as a present to Her Majesty The Queen, 

 who was graciously pleased to deposit it in the Society's Gardens. 



The colour of the naked skin on the neck and legs of this bird is 

 reddish. In the Somali bird (Siruthio molybdophanes, Reichen.^) 

 it will be recollected that these parts are bluish. But the various 

 geographical subspecies of the Ostrich have not yet been properly 

 discriminated. 



2. A specimen of what appears to be a new and undescribed 

 Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, obtained by Dr. Joseph A. 

 Moloney at Chindi, on the Lower Zambesi, when returning to this 

 country in company with Stairs's expedition. It is at once 

 recognizable, as will be seen from the coloured figure by Mr. P. Smit, 

 which I exhibit, by the strongly marked chestnut-red patches above 

 the ears. 



I propose to call it 



Cercopithecus stairsi, sp. nov. (Plate XL.) 



Supra ochraceus, artubus extus cinereis ; dor so sumnio et 

 pileo cinereis, hoc lineis nigris variegato et Jlavicante lavato ; 

 macula magna supra-auriculari utrinque castanea; frontis pilis 

 extantibus ; auribus nudis ; facie nigricante; subtus lactes- 

 centi-albus, cauda cinereo-nigricante, ad basin pallidiore, ad 

 apicetn obscuriore ; crassitie C. petauristse. 

 Hab, ad ripas fl. Zambezi inf. 



Obs. Species C. albigulari frontis pilis erectis forsan affinis, sed 

 macula auriculari castanea primo visu distingueuda. 



I propose to dedicate this distinct species to the memory of 

 Lieut. W. Grant Stairs, of the Royal Engineers, who died at Chindi, 

 at the mouth of the Zambesi, on June 9th, 1892, on his return from 

 his expedition to Katanga. The typical specimen was obtained 

 from the delta of the Zambesi by Mr. Hellier, the British Central- 

 African Company's Agent at Chindi, and given to Dr. J. A. Moloney, 

 one of the surviving members of Stairs's expedition, who brought it 

 home and presented it to this Society. 



3. A large series of specimens of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, 

 brought back by Mr. Frank Finn, F.Z.S., on his recent return from 

 a zoological excursion to Zanzibar. These animals were given into 

 Mr. Finn's charge by General Mathews, C.M.G., Dr. W. H. B. 

 MacDonald, Mr. R. MacAllister, Mr. F. Pordage, and other Corre- 

 spondents of the Society at Zanzibar and Mombasa. Amongst 



^ For an account of Mr. Williams's expedition see Eev. Fran9. et Espl. xvi. 

 p. 395. 

 ' J. f. O. 1883, p. 399. 



