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were given to three females (A. troglodytes) in the adjoining cage, 

 but no attempt was made to use them. Nevertheless, although 

 they usually sleep on the floor-level, they will carry a sack into 

 their trees and sleep upon it. A. calvus, t\\e " nest "-builder, 

 will also take up a sack and sleep on it. 



llie Habits of Chimpanzees in African Forests. 



Dr. C. 0. Christy, M.B., CM., F.Z.S., remarked "That it was 

 somewhat misleading to talk of a Chimpanzee's nest. The little 

 sleeping-platforms of the Chimpanzee made by bending inwards 

 the leafy parts of two or three of the smaller branches of some 

 sapling or larger tree, are quite a feature of the Ituri forests. 



" They are generally close to the stem, and often comparatively 

 low down, sometimes as low as 15 feet from the ground. 



" They are small structures, are occupied by one or a pair of 

 animals, and are never used a second night. They are made in 

 a minute by reaching out and pulling in the branches, bending 

 them or bi-eaking them off. 



" Chimpanzees feed largely on the ground, but I am doubtful 

 if they ever sleep there. They are extremely wary and noisy. 

 When met with in the daytime they are usually in the trees. 

 At the first alarm the big males come down from any height in 

 two swings and a drop and make off, but the females and rest of 

 the troop swing and climb slowly from branch to branch. They 

 rarely jump as monkeys do, and being too clumsy to travel 

 quickly ai-e easily overtaken. For such a big strong animal they 

 are extraordinarily easy to kill. One serious body wound with a 

 little "22 bullet is sufficient to bi-ing them down. A slightly 

 wounded one will make for the top of a big tree, and by breaking 

 off bi-anches and pushing them beneath him will in less than a 

 minute construct a big platform, upon which he will sulk or 

 keep up a furious screeching entirely hidden from beneath." 



Variation in Horns of Cattle. 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks on several 

 specimens indicating variation in the horns of cei'tain local 

 breeds of "West- African humped cattle — viz. a single horn of the 

 Gnami or Botlitli cattle from the neighbourhood of Lake Gnami, 

 of which a fine skull has recently been added to the British 

 Museum (ISTat. Hist.). The horn exhibited is 4 ft. 5 in. long 

 over the curve, and if say 11 inches were allowed for width of 

 skull, the total measurement from tip to tip equals 9 ft. 9 in. 



The specimen exhibited was part of a cargo of West- African 

 horns recently sold in London. 



The other West- African specimen, also of the humped breed, 



