THE SEORBTARY ON ADDITIONS TO TUB MENAGERIE. 1093 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



October 23rd, 1923. 



Dr. A. .Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Ohair. 



Tlie Secretary read the following Report on the Additions 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, 

 July, August, and September, 1923 : — 



June. 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during 

 the month of June were 210 in number. Of these 91 were 

 acquired by presentation, 13 were deposited, 69 were purchased, 

 and 37 Avere born in the Menagerie. 



The following may be specially mentioned : — 



1 Chimpanzee {Anthropopithecus troglodytes), $ , fi'om West 

 Africa, purchased on June 12th. 



1 Black Mangabey {Cercocehus atemmus), d » fi'om the Congo, 

 purchased on June 29th. 



2 Pumas {Felis concolor), c? $ , from South America, pur- 

 chased on June 22nd. 



1 Goliath Heron {Ardea goliath), from Kerna Marshes, Meso- 

 potamia, presented by Major Wilson. 



2 Kurdistan Ohukar Partridges {Alectoris yrceca kurdistanicus), 

 from Kurdistan, new to the Collection, presented by Dr. Sinder- 

 son on Juno 8th. 



1 Syrian Ostrich {Struthio camelus syriacus), from Jauf, Central 

 Arabia, new to the Collection, presented by Sir Percy Cox, 

 G.C.M.G., and Capt. R. E. Cheesman, I.A., on June 8th. 



2 Sundevall's Lizards (Lygosonia sundevalli), new to the Collec- 

 tion, from Dodoma, E. Africa, presented by Arthur Loveridge, 

 C.M.Z.S. 



July. 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of July were 316 in number. Of these 148 wei-e acquired 

 by presentation, 146 were deposited, 9 were purchased, 8 were 

 received in exchange, and 5 were born in the Menagerie. 



The following may be specially mentioned : — 



A collection of animals from Australia, containing Opossums, 

 Bandicoots, Regent-Birds, Bower-Birds, Brush-Turkeys, and 

 others, presented by the Marquess of Tavistock, F.Z.S., on 

 July 3rd. 



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