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EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



Fel)riiary 21, 1911. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Yice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions made 

 to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January last : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of Ja,nuary were 121 in number. Of these 63 were 

 acquired by presentation, 17 by purchase, 32 were received on 

 deposit, 5 in exchange, and 4 were born in the Gardens. 



The total number of departures dui-ing the month, by death 

 and removals, was 160. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be called to the 

 following : — 



2 Lion Cubs (Felis leo), from the Sebakwe River, S. Rhodesia, 

 presented to the King's South-African Collection, through 

 H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G., by Col. Weston Jarvis. 

 Deposited by H.M. The King on Jan. 14th. 



1 Jaguar (Felis onca), born in the Gardens on Jan 24th. 



2 Bay Duikers (Cephcdop/ms dorscdis), from Coomassie, pre- 

 sented by Capt. S. H. Chapin on Jan 21st. 



2 "Virginian Deer {Boi'celaphics americanus) $ $ , from ISToi'th 

 America, purchased on Jan 17th. 



1 Kacunda Nightjar {Podager nactonda), captured at sea ofi' 

 the coast of Brazil, new to the Collection, purchased on Jan 2nd. 



1 Bornean Fireback Pheasant [Lophura ignita), presented by 

 H.G. The Duke of Bedford, K.G., Pres.Z.S., on Jan 21st. 



■ Dr. H. Hammond Smith, M.R.C.S., F.Z.S., exhibited three 

 skins of male Pheasants assuming female plumage, sent to him 

 by Mr. Arthur Gilbey, and some microscopical specimens of the 

 glands prepared by Dr. S. G. Shattock. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., Y.P.Z.S., contributed a paper 

 based on a collection of Fishes from the Lake Ngami Basin, 

 Bechuanaland, made by Mr. R. B. Woosnam, F.Z.S. 



This paper has been published in the ' Transactions.' 



Mr. Alfred H. Cocks, M.A., F.Z.S. , exhibited a series of 

 photographs of the female Brindled Gnu recently born in the 

 Society's Gardens, and gave the following account of its growth 

 and coloration :— 



" On receipt of the orphan calf of the Brindled Gnu, born in 



