130 SHORT-HORXED BUFFALOES IX THE AXTWERP GARDEXS. [June 7, 



3. Common Pheasant X Amherst's Pheasant {Thaumalea 

 amherstire). Male. 



4. Common Pheasant X Amherst's Pheasant. Old female. 



5. Cheer Pheasant {Fh. icaUichii) x Common Pheasant (? Elliot's 

 Pheasant). Male. 



6. Cheer Pheasant x Common Pheasant. Male. 



7. Silver Pheasant {Gennceus nycthemerus) x Elliot's Pheasant. 

 Male. 



8. Lineated Kaleege {G. lineatus) x Common Pheasant. Male. 



9. Lineated Kaleege x Japanese Pheasant {Ph. versicolor'). 

 Male. 



10. Cheer Pheasant x ? Himalayan Monaiil {Lophophorus 

 impeyanus). Male. 



Dr. F. D. Dre^vitt, F.Z.S., exhibited two fine antlers of the 

 North- African Red Deer {Cervus elapJius harharus) and made the 

 following remarks : — 



" These antlers were obtained in the high forest-land of cork, 

 oak, and cedar, extending far inland on the borders of Tunis and 

 Algeria. 



" One of the most interesting linla between the fauna of 

 North Africa and Europe is tliis Red Deer living among lions 

 and panthers. 



" Barbary-Deer antlers differ from typical Red-Deer antlers in 

 having no second tine. This seems a constant characteristic. In 

 other heads seen in Algeria it was absent. It is absent in a 

 specimen from Algeria in the Cambridge Museum ; also in two 

 Menagerie specimens in the Natui'al History Museum (one from, 

 the Gardens and one given by the Duke of Bedford). 



" Few Englishmen have seen a wild Barbary Stag. Su' Harry 

 Johnston is one of thg few. He reports that twenty-four years 

 ago it was faiidy common throughout the forest. Now, though 

 protected by the French Government, it is rare ; forest fires and 

 poaching Arabs have almost exterminated it — but a few remain. 

 Fortunately a wild stag among trees, facing its enemy, is some- 

 times almost in\^sible at a few feet, the antlers exactly copying 

 not only the form of a branch but also the bai'k on it." 



Dr, Drewitt also exhibited a pair of horns (15| inches 

 in length) of Loder's Gazelle {Gazella leptoceros) from South 

 Algeria. 



Some photographs, sent by Dr. Graham Renshaw, F.Z.S., of a 

 pau' of Short-horned Buffaloes in the Antwerp Zoological Gardens, 

 were exhibited, and the following note upon them, contributed 

 by Dr. Renshaw, was read : — 



" The difficulty expeiienced by naturalists in separating the 



