No. 68. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 
March 16th, 1909. 
FREDERICK GILLETT, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The SEcrEerary read a report on the Additions made to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of February 1909. 
The Secrerary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. C. Couss, F.Z.S., 
the skins and skulls of two foetal 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 foetuses 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 Secrerary 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 called attention to a general 
correspondence between the number of vertebra and the number 
of stripes or rows of spots in many mammals. 
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