No.y5. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



November 23rd, 1909. 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, iii the Cliair. 



Tlie Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

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

 1909. 



The Secretary read a letter from Prof. "William Ridgeway, 

 M.A., D.Sc, correcting an error which had occurred in his paper 

 on " The Diflferentiation of the Three Species of Zebras " (P. Z. S. 

 1909, p. 556). He had suggested that the t3'pe specimen of 

 Ward's Zebra was the skin of an animal shot by Lord Delamere 

 near Baringo, but he was now informed by Messrs. Rowland Ward 

 that the specimen had been purchased in the flesh from Barnum 

 and Bailey's Menagei-ie. 



Dr. F. D. Welch, F.Z.S., exhibited photographs of a male 

 Gayal {Bibos frontalis) living in the Society's Gardens, in which 

 the lower halves of both fore and hind legs were almost entirely 

 black instead of pure white as in the normal adult. 



Mr. William Bickerton, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., exhibited a very 

 remarkable series of lantern-slides illustrating the Nesting Haunts 

 and Habits of the five species of British Nesting Terns, of which 

 ne had made a special photographic study. Some of the slides 

 showed the fully expanded wings of the birds when alighting after 



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