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March 14, 1893. 



Sir W. H. Tloweb, K.C.B., LL.D., E.E.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1893 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of February was 73, of which 43 were by 

 presentation, 6 by birth, 10 by purchase, 10 received in exchange, 

 and 4 on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 91. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to two Terrapins 

 procured at Okinawa Shima, or Gi'eat Loochoo Island, by Mr. P. 

 A. Hoist, and kindly presented by that gentleman. Mr. Hoist 

 writes that Dr. L. Dfiderlein has stated in a paper read before the 

 Asiatic Society that he could iind no Tortoises whatever on the 

 Loochoo Islands. Mr. Hoist has therefore forwarded these speci- 

 mens in order to show that Tortoises are certainly found there. 



Mr. Boulenger has kindly determined these Tortoises as being 

 Spengler's Terrapin, Nicoria spenrjleri (Boul., Cat. of Chelonians, 

 1889, p. 120). 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited a specimen of what he believed 

 to be Kanotragns Uvingstonianus, Kirk, which had been obtained 

 by Mr. A. H. Neumann in Northern Zululand in April 1892. The 

 species had only previously been known from a very imperfect 

 scalp and skull obtained by Sir John Kirk at Shupanga on the 

 Zambesi and described by him in the Proceedings of the Society^ 

 Although the horns of this Zulidand specimen, and also those of 

 a second example which Mr. Neumann had generously presented 

 to the National Collection, were stouter and heavier, Avithout being 

 longer, than those of the type, Mr. Thomas had little hesitation 

 in referring them to the same species, the difference appearing to 

 be merely one of age. 



N. living stoniaims, as evidenced by Mr. Neumann's two perfect 

 specimens, differed from its near ally, N. moscliatus, Von Diib., 

 the Zanzibar Antelope, in its decidedly larger size and thicker 

 horns, also in the much greater extension of the bony palate poste- 

 riorly behind the molars, and in its much brighter and more rufous 

 colour. In this last respect there was a considerable difference 

 between the two, the general colour above of N. moscliatus being 

 dull fawn-grey, while in N. Uvingstonianus it was rich rufous 

 verging on chestnut ; the flanks and legs also were far brighter 

 and more rufous. In the length of the ears and their coloration, 

 and in the general distribution of the body and limb colours, there 

 appeared to be a close agi-eement between the two species ; the 

 tail of N. Uvingstonianus was, however, much more decidedly black 

 above than that of iV. moscliatus. 



^ P. Z. S. 1864, p. 657. 

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