632 ON AFRICAN FOREST-PIGS. [June 19, 



June 19, 1906. 

 Sir Edmund Loder, Bt., Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of 

 May 1906 :— 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of May was 391. Of these 169 were acquired 

 by presentation, 25 by birth, 14 by purchase, 179 were received on 

 deposit and 4 in exchange. The number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 229. 



Among the additions special attention may be called to : — • 



Two Black-footed Cats {Fells nigripes) from the Zambesi, new 

 to the Collection, presented by Mr. A. W. Guthrie on May 26th, 



A male Eland [Taurotragits oryx) presented by the Duke of 

 Bedford, K.G., President, on May 16th. 



Three Thrush-like Bulbuls (Ixocinda crassirostris) from the 

 Seychelles, a Black Hang-nest {Cassidix oryzlvora) from Brazil, 

 new to the Collection, and three Red-crowned Vigeona {Alectnenas 

 2ndcherrima) from the Seychelles, presented by the Earl of 

 Crawford, K.T., F.R.S., F.Z.S., on May 14th. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.Z.S., exhibited specimens 

 of the Forest-Pigs Hylochceras meinertzhageni, Potomochoerus 

 cheer opotcmnus dcemonis, and Potomochoerus johnstoni, and made 

 the following remarks : — 



The adult male of Hylochoerus meinertzhageyii Thomas is 

 distinguished at a glance from Phacochcerus by the absence of the 

 second pair of " warts " behind the tusks and the presence of 

 gigantic warty excrescences below the eyes, some three times the 

 size of those in Phacochosrus. It is also covered with much longer 

 and thicker hair than Phacochosrus. The specimen exhibited is 

 from the ISTandi Forest. 



Potamo cheer us choerojjotamus dcemonis Major is distinguished 

 at once by its intense black colour. The specimen exhibited is 

 from Kilima-njaro. 



The male of Potamochcerus johnstoni Major has the pelage 

 dirty red mixed with a few black hairs, and it is generally inter- 

 mediate in colour between that of Potomochoerus chceropotmnus of 

 S. Africa and P. porcus of W. Africa. 



The skull shows the same distinctive features pointed out by 

 Dr. Forsyth Major in P. Z. S. 1897, pp. 367-368. The supra- 

 occipital is exactly as in the 5 type, hardly incised at all, but the 

 malar and squamosal are enormously thickened and shortened, 

 more as in P. larvatus. The portion of the maxillary containing 

 the tusk, however, is very attenuated, and though an old beast 

 the tusk-stump is small. 



The specimen was obtained at Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



