No. 12. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



December 13th, 1904. 



Herbert Druce, Esq., F.L.S., Yice- President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during November 1904, and 

 called special attention to a Ferret-Badger (Relictis personata) 

 from Burmah ; to two Chimpanzees [Anthropopithecus schwein- 

 fitrthi) from the Bagomo Forest, Uganda ; to a male specimen of 

 the Senegal race of the African Bufialo {Buhalus centralis) ; and 

 to three Mouse-Hares {Ochotona i-oylei) from Baluchistan. The 

 total number of additions during the month was 150. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited specimens of a pair of 

 Gazelles from Jerusalem which had been obtained and presented 

 to the British Museum by Dr. Selah Merrill. They represented 

 a new species allied to the Atlas Gazelle, and were proposed to be 

 named 



Gazella merrillt, sp. n. 



Allied to G. cuvieri, but smaller, with shorter horns, these 

 being more strongly curved backwards below and recurved 

 forwards at their tips. Premaxillse not reaching nasals. 



Extreme length of the typical male skull 194 mm. ; horn, 

 length over curves anteriorly 241. 



Rab. Hizmeh, N. of Jerusalem. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.Z.S., read a paper on 

 Anthropoid Apes. He characterised four forms of Goi"illa {Gorilla), 

 twelve of Chimpanzee [Simia), and four of Orang-Utan (Foiigo), 



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