No. 36. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



November 27tli, 1906. 

 Howard Sauxders, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a. Repoit on the additions that had been 

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

 1906. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., exhibited the leg-bones of two 

 Foxes that had been caught in snares. The wire in each case 

 had cut through the skin and was drawn tight round the bone, 

 which in course of development had grown over the wire and 

 enveloped it. 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S., read some notes on the habits of the 

 Lesser Horseshoe Bat, Ehinolophus lii'pi:)os%der%is, in the course of 

 which it was stated that this Bat usually occupied different 

 retreats in summer and winter, and that during the earlier period 

 of occupation of the winter retreat sleep was not profound. The 

 Bats fed probably in the caves or retreats, and the food was 

 at times, if not always, consumed when the animal was at rest 

 and not on the wing. When feeding it did not — probably could 

 not — make use of the interfemoral membrane, after the manner 

 of the Vesper tilionidce, but, as a substitute, the interbrachial 

 membrane was employed. These facts suggested that the 

 hibernation of this species, and probably of other cave-haunting 

 Bats, was not really a profound winter sleep. 



A communication from Messrs. Edgar A. Smith, I.S.O., and 

 H. H. Bloomer contained an account of four species of Solenidce 

 contained in the collections ma,de by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 

 Zanzibar and British East Africa in 1901-02. 



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