No. 93. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



March 21st, 1911. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, M.A., F.E.S., Vice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The 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 February 

 1911. 



Mr. R. I. FococK, F.Z.S,, Superintendent of the Gardens, 

 exhibited :— 



(1) A pair of Otter cubs about seven weeks old, which were 

 found under a landing-stage at Tewkesbury, and presented to the 

 Society by Mr. W. Baring Bingham, F.Z.S. 



(2) A specimen of the North American Black-footed Polecat 

 {Putorius nigripes), recently received in exchange from the 

 Zoological Society of Washington, a species furnishing, in 

 Mr. Pocock's opinion, an admirable instance of " warning 

 coloration." 



(3) The skin of a Chacma Baboon (Fapio j^orcarkts), from 

 Potchefstroom in the Transvaal, representing an apparently un- 

 described subspecies, for which the name g7-iseipes was jiroposed, 

 in allusion to the speckled coloration of the hands and feet, a 

 character in which it differed mai'kedly from the typical black- 

 handed Chacmas of Cape Colony. 



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