1907.] ON ENGLISH DOM?:STIC CATS. 143 



February 19, ]!J07. 

 Sir Edmund G. Lodkji, Jit., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions that 

 had been made to the (Society's Menagerie in January 1907 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of Januaiy were 108 in number. Of these 55 were 

 aa^uired by presentation and 11 by purchase, 41 wei-e received 

 on deposit, and 1 was born in the Gardens. The total number 

 of departures during the same period, by death and removals, 

 was 163. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



An Agile Gibbon {fTylohates a'jilis) from Borneo, purchased on 

 Jan. 17th. 



A Wild Cat {Frills catus) from Inverness-shire, presented by 

 Mr. G. W. Henderson, F.Z.S., on Jan. 26th. 



Two Superb Tanagers {Calliste faMuosa), a Crowned Tanager 

 ( Tachyphonus coronatus), and two Scarlet Tanagers {Rhmn/phocfdus 

 hrasiUus), from Brazil, purchased on Jan. 21st. 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., exhibited remains of a Bear 

 from the supei-ficial deposits of a cavern in the mountains of 

 Corsica, where Bears, though now extinct, were formerly nume- 

 rous, at least up to the sixteenth centuiy. Despite the fact that 

 no truly fossil Beai-s were as yet known froiri Coi-sica, Dr. Forsyth 

 Major considered the Corsican Bear to have been autochthonous 

 whilst in his opinion the recent Mammals of Corsica (and Sardinia) 

 had been, almost without exception, introduced by human agency. 

 In any case they could not be adduced as proofs of a i-ecent 

 connection of those islands with either of the neighbouring 

 continents. 



The following papers were read ; — 



1. On English Domestic Cats. By R. I. PocoCK, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.iS., Superintendent of the Zoolooical Society's 

 Gardens. 



[Received February 5, YMfJ.'\ 



(Plates VIII.-X.* and Text-figui-e 60.) 



1 . The ClfMsiJication of Eitfjlish Domestic Cats. 



Domestic Cats in Great Britain are classified by the iS^ational 

 Cat Club under two headings: — (1) Short-haired; (2) Long- 

 haired, otherwise called "Persians" or "Angoras." The 

 "Persians" are subdivided according to colour into "Blacks" 



* For explanation of the Platfcs, see ],]>. 107, 168. 



