No. 9. 



ABSTEACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



June 7th, 1904. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions — 276 in number 

 — that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during May 

 1904, and called special attention to the following specimens, all 

 new to the collection : — Three Andaman Banded Crakes {Rallina 

 ca7iningi), presented by the Government of India ; a Yellow- 

 handed Howler [Mycetes beelzebtd), an Antil opine Kangaroo 

 (Macropus atitilopinus), and a Grey Solitaire (Myiadectes 

 unicolor), deposited. 



The Secretary also made some remarks on two fully-adult 

 specimens of the Orang-Utan which he had recently seen in Paris. 



Dr. GtJNTHER, F.E.S., Yice-Pres.Z.S., on behalf of the President, 

 exhibited a series of hybrid Pheasants killed at various times in 

 the coverts at Woburn, where 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 tentative 

 determinations. 



Dr. F. D. Drewitt, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon 

 two fine antlers of the JSTorth- African Red Deer [Cervus elaphus 

 barbarus) which he had brought from the high forest land 

 extending far inland on the borders of Tunis and Algeria. — ■ 

 Dr. Drewitt also exhibited a pair of horns of Loder's Gazelle 

 {Gazella hptoceros) from South Algeria. 



A communication from Dr. Graham Renshaw, F.Z.S., con- 

 tained notes, illustrated by photographs, on a pair of Short- 

 horned Bufialoes in the Antwerp Zoological Gardens. 



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