308 MR. E. C. CHUBB ON TWO F@TAL LIONS. [Mar. 16, 
March 16, 1909. 
FREDERICK GILLETT, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions made 
to the Society’s Menagerie during the month of February 1909 :— 
The number of registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie 
during the month of February last was 92. Of these, 50 were 
acquired by presentation, 2 by purchase, 28 were received on 
deposit, 2 in part exchange, and 10 were born in the Gardens. 
The number of departures during the same period, by death and 
removals, was 134. 
Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to :— 
One Common Tapir (Zapirus americanus) 8, from South 
America, and one Malayan Tapir (Zapirus indicus) 2, from 
Malacca, received in part exchange on February 2nd. 
One American Bison (Bison americanus) 2, born in the Men- 
agerie on February 27th. 
The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. C. Chubb, F.Z.S., 
the skins and skulls of two feetal lions which had been presented 
to the Rhodesia Museum, Bulawayo, by Mr. A. Giese. They had 
been taken from a lioness which Mr. Giese shot last November at 
Deka, about 50 miles south of the Victoria Falls. 
These fcetuses showed very little pattern compared to that of 
newly born cubs; the black markings in each example of the 
former consisting only of a fairly well-defined median dorsal line, 
a mottling on the head, some distinct spots on the outer sides of 
the limbs, and a suspicion of rings on the tip of the tail. 
The Secretary exhibited a photograph of a young American 
Tapir, and called attention to the remarkable resemblance between 
that and the young Malayan Tapir, a photograph of which was 
reproduced in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings, 1908, p. 786. The 
longitudinal light stripes on the flanks of the body, the spots on 
the legs, and the white tips to the ears were present in both. 
The Secretary called attention to an interesting paper by 
C. Onelli in the ‘ Revista del Jardin Zoologico de Buenos 
Aires,’ 1908, p. 207, in which the author described a general 
correspondence between the number of vertebrae and the number 
of stripes or rows of spots in many mammals. 
The Secretary exhibited a photograph of a small herd of 
Mountain Zebras (Equus zebra) in the possession of a dealer at 
Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 
