2\ 2 ■ MB. G. A,. UOar-ENQEll ON THE EBPTIIHS AND [Feb. 4, 



February 4, 1896. 

 Dr. A. GONTHEE, F.K.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to tlie 

 Society's Menagerie during the month o£ January : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie duriug the 

 month of January were 54 in number. Of these 37 were acquired 

 by presentation, 12 by purchase, and 5 were received on deposit. 

 The total number of departures during the same period, by death 

 and removals, was 85. 



The following acquisitions are of special interest : — 



(1) A young male Manatee from the Rio Purus, Amazons, 

 purchased Jan. 4th. 



This animal was brought to Liverpool, from Para, by Capt. 

 E. J. CoUings of the S.S. ' Obidense,' of the Eed Cross Line. It 

 appears, so far as I can tell from examination of the living animal, 

 to belong to the Amazonian species distinguished by Natterer 

 many years ago as Manaius inunguis, and upon which Dr. Clemens 

 Hartlaub has published an excellent memoir '. 



The living Manatees previously received by the Society have 

 been four in number, namely : — 



1. $ , purchased Aug. 6th, 1875, from Demerara. See P. Z. S. 



1875, p. 529. 



2. cJ , purchased March 2nd, 1889. See P. Z. S. 1889, p. 160. 



3. $ ad. \ Presented by Sir Henry A. Blake, Oct. 19th, 1893. 



4. c? jr. J From Jamaica. See P. Z. S. 1893, p. 691. 



(2) Two young King Penguins (Aptenodytes pennanti) in down, 

 plumage, from the Macquarie Islands, south of New Zealand, 

 brought home by Capt. C. S. Milward, of the S.S. ' Otarama,' 

 and purchased Jan. 7th. 



Capt. Milward kindly informs us that he received these birds in 

 New Zealand on Nov. 1st, 1895, and that they had been obtained 

 in the Macquarie Islands about Oct. 15th, having been caught 

 only a few days previously. It was stated generally in those 

 islands that the King Penguins are hatched there at the latter 

 end of December or beginning of January, so that these birds are 

 probably about a year old and will shortlj' moult into their adult 

 plumage. ' ___^_ 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Second Report on the Reptiles and Batrachians collected 

 by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his Expedition to 

 Lake Rudolf. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 

 [Received January 7, 1896.] 

 (Plates VII. & VIII.) 



The present list refers to the second and concluding portion of 



Dr. Donaldson Smith's collection. The first instalment, from 



^ " Beitriige ziir Kenntniss Jer Manatus-Ai'ten," Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 1 (1880). 



