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EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



April 25, 1911. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1911 : — 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of March last was 270. Of these 73 were 

 acquired by presentation, 137 by purchase, 45 were received on 

 deposit, 8 in exchange, and 7 were born in the Gardens. 



The number of departures during the same period, by deaths 

 and removals, was 158. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



2 Siamang Gibbons i^Symphalangus syndactyhis) $ $ , from 

 Sumatra, purchased on March 10th. 



2 I^eumann's Yervet Cercopitheques (Cercopithecus centrcdis), 

 new to the Collection, from Lake Kivu, Central Africa, deposited 

 on March 23rd. 



2 Ruffed Lemurs {Letnur varius) c? 2 » from Madagascar, pre- 

 sented by Frederick Burgoyne, Esq., F.Z.S., on March 15th. 



2 Pumas [Felis concolor), from Pernambuco, presented by John 

 Sparks, Esq., F.Z.S., on March 11th. 



1 Elephant-Seal [Macrorhiiius crozetensis), new to the Col- 

 lection, from the Crozet Islands, presented to The King's African 

 Collection by Dr. Louis Peringuey, F.Z.S., and deposited by 

 H.M. The King on March 23rd. 



1 Gundlacli's Troupial {Quiscalus gundlachi), new to the 

 Collection, from the Greater Antilles, presented by the Countess 

 of Suffolk on March 2nd. 



Mr. C. Tate Regan, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited a series of lantern- 

 slides of scales of the Salmon {Sahno salar), and showed how the 

 life-history of the fish could be read from its scales. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., the Society's Curator of Birds, 

 exhibited : — 



(1) A nest (text-fig. 164, p. 672) of the Grey Struthidea or 

 Apostle Bird (Struthidea cinei'ea), composed entirely of mud, and 

 built on a branch in the Westei-n Aviary. 



(2) Lantern-slides from photographs of the King Penguin 

 (Aptenodytes pennanti) and Black-footed Penguins {Spheniscus 

 demersus) showing the method of moulting. 



(3) Lantern-slides of a number of wild Swainson's Lorikeets 

 (Trichoglossus novce-hollandice), from photographs kindly sent 

 by Mrs, Innes, of Mackay, North Queensland. These birds came 



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