1907.] ON A FRONTLET AXr> HORNS OF THE TAKIX. 467 



May 28, 1907. 

 Dr. J, Rose Bradford, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary i-ead the foUo^ving report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of 

 Aprill907:— 



The number of i-egistered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of April was 284. Of these 116 were 

 acquired by presentation and 66 by purchase, 45 were received on 

 deposit, 48 by exchange, and 9 were born in the Gai'dens. The 

 number of departures during the same period, by death and 

 removals, was 158. 



Among the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



AHoolock Gibbon {Hylohates Jioolock) from Rangoon, presented 

 by Mr. A. H. E. Wood, F.Z.S., on April 29th. 



A Golden Cat {Felis temininchi) from Padang, Sumatra, 

 pui-chased on April 3rd. 



A Collection of Mammalia from Ceylon and Singapore, 

 including a White- whiskered Palm- Civet [Paradoxurus leitco- 

 onystax) and a Malayan Tapir [Tapir us indicits), presented by 

 Mr. W. E. Balston, F.Z.S., on April 15th. 



Two pairs of Mithan or Gayals [Bibos frontalis) from Sikkim, 

 <leposited on April 18th. 



A pair of Chamois [Rivpicapra tragus) from the Austrian Tyi'ol, 

 received in exchange on April 22nd. 



A pair of Owen's Kangaroos [Macroinis inagnas) from 

 Australia, deposited on April 29th. 



Two Little Sparrow-Hawks (Accipiter minidlus), a One-streaked 

 Hawk [Melierax ononogrammicus), a Grey Eagle-Owl [Bubo 

 cinerascens), and a Eraser's Eagle-Owl [Buho j)oensis) from Lagos, 

 presented by Dr. Macfarlane, F.Z.S. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of the patent Falconnier 

 Glass Bricks, which had been referred to by Mr. Trevor-Battye 

 at the last scientific meeting of the Society, as specially suitable 

 for the construction of menagerie bviildings. 



The Secretary also exhibited the frontlet with horns of a 

 specimen of the Takin, Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, and made 

 the following remarks : — 



These fine horns have been lent to me by Mr. A, St. Clair 

 Carnegy, to whom they were given by Mr. Charles T. Forbes of 

 Badipar, Assam, the latter having obtained them from the Rajah 

 of the Kampti Country. 



The tips of the horns bend in towards the middle line I'ather 

 more than in other examples I have seen. The actual distance 

 between the tips is 9| inches, whereas in the instances quoted in 

 |ilr. Rowland Ward's ' Records of Big Game ' (5th Edition) the 



