186 DR. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [June 24, 



May {continued). 



1 Diana Monkey 



1 Yellow Wagtail 



12 Tree-Frogs 



1 Capromys ■ 



1 Turkey 



1 Indian Kock-Snake .., 



1 Spectacle Cobra 



2 Guillemots 



2 Razor-bills 



2 Puffins 



4 Kingfishers 



1 Blood-rumpedParrakeet, 



male. 



4 AfrJ can Waxbills , . 



2 Black-headed Finches... 



1 Echidna 



5 Indian Pastors 



2 Punjaub Wild Sheep ... 



3 Silver Foxes 



3 Wolves 



6 Pintail Ducks 



13 Sonnerat's Jungle-Fowls 

 (hybrids). 



3 Ashy-headed Geese 



CercopitJiecus diana 



Motacilla rayi 



Hyla viridis 



Capromys brachyurus . , . 



Meleagris gallopavo 



Python regius 



Naia tripudians 



Uria troUle 



Alca torda 



Fratercula arctica 



Alcedo ispida 



Psephotus hcematonotus „ 



Estrelda cinerea ... 

 Amadina cucullata 

 Echidna hystrix ... 

 Pastor malabaricus 



Ovis cycloceros 



Canis argentatus ... 



— lupus 



Dafila acuta 



Gallus sonneratii ... 



>Purchased. 



Chloephaga poUocephala 



Born. 



Hatched. 



Of these, Tropidolepisma majus and Pastor malaharicus were stated 

 to have been exhibited for the first time. 



June 24, 1862. 



E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Dr. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to some interesting 

 additions lately made to the Society's Menagerie. These were — 



1. Two Spider Monkeys, purchased of Mr. Edward Greey, of the 

 Royal Mail Company's Service. These Monkeys had been obtained 

 by Mr. Greey on the Rana River, Gorgon Bay, near San Juan del 

 Norte, in Nicaragua. They appeared referable to two different spe- 

 cies: — Atelesfrontatus, Gray [Brachyteles {Eriodes) frontatus. Gray, 

 Zool. Voy. Sulphur], smaller and parti-coloured; and Ateles hy- 

 hridus, I. G. St.-Hil., larger and of the same form, greyish brown. 

 The former species had been already noticed as occurring in Central 

 America* ; the latter was generally considered to be a New-Grana- 

 dian species. 



2. Two young Bears brought from Japan and deposited in the 

 Gardens by Captain Ward. The only Bear hitherto recorded as 



* See the article " On the Northern Limit of the Quadrumana in the New 

 World," in Nat. Hist. Review, 1861, p. 507. 



