168 DR. C. G. SELIGMANN ON" DEATHS [Feb. 19, 



Plate IX. 

 Striped Tabb.y, Felis torquata. 



Fig. 1. Example of the Felis si/lvestris-type to be compared with fig. 1, Plate X. 



2. Like the last, but the pattern more spotted. 



3. A partially albino specimen with the sjjots larger and more widely spaced 



than in No. 2. 



4. Specimen of the so-called " Ticked " breed, with the spots disintegrated and 



generallj- distribi;ted over the bodJ^ 



(From the Cats' Home, Camden Town.) 



Plate X. 

 Agriotypes of the Striped Tabby, F. torquata. 



Figs. 1 & 2. European Wild Cats, F. s_i/lvesfris, from Ross-shire in Scotland. 



Figs. 3, 4, 5. Young examples of the South African race of the African Wild Cat, 

 Feiis ocreafa caffra. The pattern is usually more distinct in the young 

 than in the adults of this species. The exact locality of these three 

 specimens is unknown. They were shipped from Cape ColonJ^ 



■ (The camera has emphasised the pattern of the skins depicted on this Plate.) 



2. Report on Deaths occurring in the Society's Menagerie 

 during 1906. By C. G. Seligmann, k.D., F.Z.S., 

 Pathologist to the Societr. 



[Received February 19, 1907.] 

 (Text-figure 61.) 



In the annexed table will be found the causes of death so fai- as 

 they could be discovered of 355 mammals and 283 birds which 

 died in the Society's Gardens, and which were submitted to post- 

 mortem examination during the year 1906. In these mammals 

 and birds no cause of death is stated to have been found in 36 

 mammals and only one bird, but it must be noted that the number 

 of deaths put down to trauma and exhaustion is much larger than 

 in 1905. This is due, in my opinion, to the important part 

 played by depressed vitality, and in some cases darkness and 

 cold, in bringing about death. The method of classification is the 

 same as that adojjted last year*, but two new headings occur, A"iz. 

 Diseases of the Ductless Glands and Deaths due to Old Age. 

 Possibly two of the deaths among birds attributed to " trauma 

 and exhaustion " really took place owing to the effect of parasites. 



The following remarks refer to conditions of special pathological 

 interest occurring in the animals in the Gardens. 



Tuherculosis. — It is yet too early to attempt any full appreciation 

 of the effect of thoroughly disinfecting, scraping, and rei^ainting 

 the monke3^-hoase, undertaken early in the year, when the heating 

 arrangements also were altered, but the diminution of deaths from 

 tuberculosis — 34 in 1906 against 53 in 1905 — is decidedly 

 encouraging. If the figures be expressed as percentages, 21 "6 of 

 the total deaths in monkeys were from tuberculosis in 1906 against 



* " Note on Deaths occurring in the Society's Gardens during 1905," P. Z. S. 1906 

 p. 234 et seq. 



