No. 31. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;" 



May 1st, 1906. 

 Dr. HsxRY Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the mouth of March 

 1906, which stated that they were 124 in number. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited the skin of a re- 

 markable new Duiker from Nyasaland, which had been presented 

 to the British Museum by Mr. S. W. Frank. 



It was (by Mr. Frank's request) named as follows : — 



Cephalophus walkeri, sp. n. 



Size medium. General ground-colour dark greyish brown, 

 darkening almost to black on the back. Under surface scarcely 

 lighter. Whole of foi'ehead deep glossy black, connected by a 

 narrow dark line down the nape with the black of the back. 

 Cheeks and chin pale fawn. Limbs dai-k throughout. 



Hah. Tuchela River, S. Nyasa. 



Type. B.M. No. 6.4.21.1. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., F.Z.S., read a short 

 paper entitled " Further Notes on Anthropoid Apes," and exhi- 

 bited five mounted specimens, one skeleton, six skulls, and a 

 photograph of the following races : — Gorilla gorilla dark-headed 

 race, G. gorilla red-headed race, G. gorilla matschiei, G. gorilla 

 cliehli, Simia vellerosus, and S. vellerosus ftdiginosus. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., read a paper on Mammals 

 collected in South-west Australia for Mr. W. E. Balston. 



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