1902.] SIR H. n. HO\yORTH ON MALFORMED deer's AXTLERS. 227 



referable to Capra cegagrus), which had been sent to him by 

 Mr. B. T. Ffinch. It was said to have been taken on board the 

 s.s. ' Scharlachberger ' in Karachee Harbour, and was the indi- 

 vidual referred to by Mr. J. Strip in his letter to ' The Field ' of 

 Aug. 6th, 1898 (voL xcii. p. 274). The length of the left horn 

 was said to be no less than 55| inches, and the right, which was 

 slightly broken, 50^^ inches. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited some photographs of the Rocky Mountain 

 Goats in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 

 and read the following extracts from Mr. A. E. Brown's letter 

 concerning them ; — 



" When I saw you in April, you expressed a desire to have a 

 photogTaph of our Rocky Mountain Goat {Haplocerus montmvas). 

 I now send you one, taken a few days ago by Mr. Carson of this 

 Society. 



"The male was born about May 15th, 1901, in the Canadian 

 Rocky Mountains, near Field, British Columbia, on the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. The mother was killed on May 29th by a Swiss 

 guide, who captured the kid, raised it by hand, and brought it to 

 the Gardens October 1st. At that time it was 2 feet in height 

 at the shoulder, and weighed 55 lbs. Its horns were 1| inches 

 long on the anterior face. It now weighs 96 lbs., height 

 30 inches, length of horns 6| inches, circumference at base 

 4 inches. 



"The female was presented to the Society on Dec. 22, 1901. 

 It came from Central Idaho and was evidently bred in the 

 previous year, but I was not able to secure any exact information 

 about it. It is now 28 inches in height ; weight 74 pounds ; length 

 of horns 7| inches, which are more slender than in the male. 

 Both these animals have remained in uniformly good health, but 

 have not yet had to encounter a long period of great heat, the 

 effects of which I fear ; but on Saturday last the thermometer 

 rose to 93° Fahr., from which they did not seem to svifFer distress."" 



Dr. Gunther exhibited living tadpoles of the North- American 

 Bull-frog {Rana mugiens) bred in Surrey. They were the oft- 

 spring of specimens introduced by the Hon. Charles Ellis, F.Z.S. 

 Although a great number of these tadpoles had been reared 

 this year in the ponds near Mr. Ellis's residence, the majority 

 attaining to their full size, none of them had been observed 

 to complete their metamorphosis. They were therefore obliged to 

 hibernate, like many of the tadpoles of Rana escule7iia var. 

 ridibunda, which have been acclimatized in the same locality. 



Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., exhibited and made 

 remarks upon the head of a Yirginian Deer (Cariacits virginianus) 

 shot by an experienced old hunter in the mountains of New 



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