806 MR. D. SETH-SMI'in ON A HARE LORY. 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 

 May 21, 1912. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bt., Vice-President, 

 in the Ohair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions 

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

 1912 :— 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of April last was 291, Of these 165 were 

 acquired by presentation, 61 by purchase, 17 were received on 

 deposit, 8 in exchange, and 40 were born in the Gardens. 



The number of departures during the same period, by deaths 

 and removals, was 189. 



Amonsfst the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



1 Riippell's Guereza {Colohus ahyssinicus occidentalis) S , from 

 the Southern Cameroons, deposited on April 29th. 



1 Black Jaguar (^Felis onca) § , from Para, purchased on 

 April 12th. 



1 Capped Langur {Semnopithecus pileatus), 2 Elands {Tauro- 

 traqits oryx)^ 1 Common Camel {Camelus dromedarius), and 



1 Ursine Tree-Kangaroo {Dendrolagus ursimis), born in the 

 Menagerie. 



A collection of birds from Columbia, presented by W. K, 

 Pomeroy, Esq., F.Z.S., on April 6th, containing amongst others, 



2 Purple Jays {Gyanocorax affinis), new to the Collection ; 1 Harpy 

 Eagle {Thrasaettts harpy ia) ; 2 Severe Macaws {Ara sever a) ; and 

 2 Golden Hangnests [Icterus xanthornus). 



2 Lammergeiers {Gypaelus harbatus), from Russian Turkestan, 

 purchased on April 19th. 



1 large Reticulated Python {Python reticulciMis), from the East 

 Indies, presented by Rowland Ward, Esq., F.Z.S., on April 19th. 



Mr. A. Blayney Percival, F.Z.S., exhibited a number of 

 photographs and lantern-slides of Game Animals from British 

 East Africa, including a fine series of the Reticulated Giraffe. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., Curator of Birds, exhibited two 

 living specimens of a rare Lory, Gctlliptilus soUtarius, from Fiji, 

 and remarked that Dr. Philip H. Bahr had recently brought 

 home two specimens which had died. The specimens exhibited 

 were from a collection of eight brought home alive by Mr. Rood 

 Tarte, of Taviuni Island, one of the Fijian group, where this very 

 beautiful species was still abundant, its numbers having been 

 very considerably reduced in the other islands by the introduced 



