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Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., the Society's Curator of 

 Mammals, exhibited the skin and skull of a Crested Rat 

 {Lopliiomys ibeanus)^ sent from British East Africa by Mr. R. B. 

 Woosnam, and after drawing attention to the characters of the 

 skull in this genus, said that in his opinion the coloration was 

 for the purpose of self-advertisement and rendered the animal 

 conspicuous at night. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., sent for exhibition a photograph 

 he had taken of a living specimen of a male albino Woodchuck, 

 Arctomys 7iionax, that had been sent to him from Virginia, 



U.S.A. 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks upon the 

 Horns of a Highland Ram, a Fallow Deer, and a Roebuck, which 

 were fused at the base, and also the skull of a coursing Greyhound 

 with abnormal dentition. 



Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman, F.Z.S., read a paper on Antelopes 

 of the genera Madoqua and EhyncJiotragus found in Somaliland, 

 specimens of most of which were exhibited at the Meeting. He 

 made general remarks on all the Dik-diks and gave a short 

 account of the species and subspecies, including the description 

 of a new form. 



The Hon. Paul A. Methuen, F.Z.S., communicated a paper 

 " On an Amphipod from the Transvaal," in which he gave a 

 detailed description of a new freshwater Gammarid of the genus 

 Eucrangonyx, that had been found in caves in the Transvaal. 



A paper was contributed by Mr. R. Ltdekker on three African 

 animals. The first specimen was the skull of a Somali Rhinoceros, 

 a race for which the author adopted the name Rhinoceros hicornis 

 somalicus, Potocki. A Klij)springer skull from Northern Nigeria, 

 characterized by its great width and the peculiar form of the 

 lachrymal bone, was described as the type of a new race, Oreotragus 

 saltator portetisi. Finallj^ a Gazelle from Algeria was referred 

 to a new species, Gazella hayi, agreeing approximately in size 

 with G. dorcas, but distinguished by the much straighter and 

 non-lyrate horns, each of which carried only about a dozen rings. 

 The face-markings were approximate to those of G. cuvieri. 



A paper entitled "A Contribution to the Ornithology of Western 

 Colombia," by Mr. C. E. Hellmayr, was communicated by Dr. P. 

 L. Sclater, F.R.S. This memoir was based on a collection made 

 by Mr. M. G. Palmer in 1908 and 1909, which, though numbering 

 hardly 700 specimens, was of considerable interest and contained 

 many rare species, and also furnished information of importance 

 to stu dents of zoogeographical problems. 



