PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



JanuaSy^rr, 1893, 

 Sir "W. H. Flo-wee, K.C.B., F.R.S,, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the followiug report ou the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1892 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of December was 43, of which 18 were 

 by presentation, 23 by purchase, and 2 on deposit. The total 

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

 was 140. 



Mr. F. C. Selous, C.M.Z.S., exhibited the skull of an Antelope 

 believed to be a hybrid between the Sassaby (Bubalis luiiata) 

 and the Hartebeest (B. caama), which he had transmitted to the 

 British Museum in 1890, and read the following letter which he 

 had addressed to Dr. Giinther ou the subject, dated Tati Eiver, 

 Matabeleland, March 23rd, 1890 :— 



"I am sending you the skull of a very curious animal which 

 would puzzle you immeusely if I did not tell you what it was. It 

 is the skull of a male cross-bred animal, between a Tsessebe Antelope 

 {Buhalis lunata) and a Hartebeest (5. caama), the father probably 

 being one of the former Antelopes and the mother one of the 

 latter. This animal was shot a few miles from here, between the 

 Tati and Shashi rivers, by my old friend Cornehus van Eooyen, the 

 well-known Boer hunter. You will see that the skull of this animal 

 closely resembles that of a Hartebeest, whilst the horns are neither 

 like those of a Hartebeest nor those of a Tsessebe, but partake of 

 the characters of both, standing nearly straight up from the skull 



Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1893, l^o. I. 1 



