1904.] DR. A. GtJNTHER ON HYBRID PHEASANTS. 129 



June 7, 1904. 



F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.O.L., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Menagerie in May 1904 : — 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of May was 276. Of these 102 were acqiiired 

 by presentation and 97 by purchase, 8 were born in the Gardens, 

 61 were received on deposit and 8 in exchange. The number of 

 departures during the same period, by death and removals, 

 was 132. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to the following- 

 specimens, all new to the Collection : — 



1. Three Andaman Banded Crakes [Rallina canningi), pre- 

 sented by the Government of India on May 2nd. 



2. A Yellow-handed Howler [Mi/cetes beelzebid), received on 

 deposit on May 13th. 



3. An Antilopine Kangaroo [Macropus antilojyinus), received 

 on deposit on May 14th. 



4. A Grey Solitaire {^Myiadectes unicolor), received on deposit 

 on May 30th. 



The Secretary reported that he had recently paid a visit to Paris 

 to inspect two specimens of the Orang-utan {^Simia sati/rus) which 

 had been offered for sale to the Society. He stated that they 

 were very fine animals and fully adult, one of them standing over 

 five feet in height and the other not much less, the former being 

 the largest he had ever seen either living or stufled. Although 

 they were savage he was able to feed them from the hand with 

 boiled rice, which constituted their chief food. Owing to his 

 opinion that they were in indifferent health he did not purchase 

 them *. 



Dr. Giinther, F.R.S., Yice-Pres.Z.S., on behalf of the President, 

 exhibited a series of hybrid Pheasants killed at vaiious times in 

 the coverts at Woburn, where specimens of many distinct species 

 had been turned out into the open. He stated that nothing of 

 a definite nature was known as to their parentage, but proposed 

 the following determinations tentatively : — 



1. Reeves's Pheasant [Phasianus reevesi) x Common Pheasant. 



2. Reeves's Pheasant x Elliot's Phea,sant [Ph. ellioti). An old 

 female assuming male plumage. 



* [I have been informed that both the Orangs died within a few da3's of my 

 seeing them. — P. C. M.] 



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