PROCEEDINGS 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



January 14, 1890. 

 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 1889 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December 1889 were 45 in number. Of these 28 were 

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

 in the Gardens, and 13 were received on deposit. The total number 

 of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 79. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of a very singular Duck, 

 apparently of the genus Tadorna, transmitted to him for deter- 

 mination by Dr. Chr. F. Liiticen, of Copenhagen, F.M.Z.S. The 

 specimen had been obtained near Wladivostok, N.E. Asia, in April 

 1877, by Lieutenant Fr. Irminger, then in the service of the Great 

 Northern Telegraph Company. After careful examination Mr. Sclater 

 had come to the conclusion that it was a hybrid, probably between 

 the Ruddy Sheldrake {Tadorna casarea) and the Falcated Teal 

 {Querquedula falcata). It was described as follows : — 



Tadorna casarca x QuERauEDXJLA falcata (?). (Plate I.) 



Front, face, space behind the eyes, and neck all round white ; 

 top and back of head, long crested nape, and line beneath the 

 eye black ; back brownish grey, with numerous narrow white cross- 

 bars ; wing-coverts all pure white ; primaries black ; inner secondaries 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1890, No. I. 1 



