986 MR. W. E. BE WINTOlSr OlSr DEKDROMTS LOVATI. [DeC 19, 



lately added to the collection. According to information kindly 

 supplied to Mr. Sclater by Grosserer Anton Niiss, of Tromso, these 

 animals had been captured on Clavering Island, near Cape Mary, 

 East Greenland (about 74° N. lat.) on the 16th August, 1899. 



Young male Musk-ox, living at Wobura. (From a photograph taken by 

 H.G. The Duchess of Bedford.) 



Mr. Sclater exhibited photographs of these animals taken by 

 the Duchess of Bedford, and stated that he believed these specimens 

 to be the first examples of this remarkable mammal that had 

 reached Europe alive. 



Mr. W. E. de Winton exhibited a remarkable Mouse of the 

 genus Dendromys, obtained by Lord Lovat at Managatha in 

 Southern Abyssinia, for which he proposed the name Dendromys 

 lovati. This new species was of about the same size as D. typicus, 

 but was striped to almost the same extent as the Barbary 

 Mouse (Arvicanfhis harharus). Perhaps the markings would be 

 more easily realized if likened to those of the Chipmunks (Tamias) : 

 the broad black dorsal stripe was divided by a narrow grizzled 



