1046 ON AN ANTELOPE WITH OVERGROWN HOOFS. [DeC. 10, 



the back is ti-ansversely banded with black, and shows no trace of 

 a spinal stripe, with the skin of the previous species, (J. dorsalis, 

 which has a broad black spinal strijDO, withovit concluding that 

 the stripes of C. dorice actually represent the spinal stripe of 

 C. dorsalis. In other words, the forerunners of C. dorice had 

 a wide spinal stripe which in the course of the evolution of the 

 species became broken up into transverse black bands. 



December 10, 1907. 

 Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bt., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions made 

 to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 

 1907:— 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of November was 190. Of these 73 were 

 acquired by presentation and 7 by purchase, 104 were received 

 on deposit, 2 by exchange, and 4 were bred in the Gardens. 

 The total number of departures during the same period, by 

 death and removals, was 165. 



Among the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



A male Hamlyn's Giienon [Cercopithecits hamlyni), from the 

 Ituri Forest, new to the Collection, deposited on Nov, 5th. 



Two Grisons [Gcdictis vittata), from the Argentine, joresented 

 by M. C. Livingstone Learmouth, Esq., on Nov. 21st. 



A collection of Rodents, including 1 Darling's Rat {Mus 

 ehri/soj^hilus), 6 Yley Rats {Otomys irroratus), 3 Peters' Water 

 Rats {Dasymys incomhts), new to the Collection, from S. Africa, 

 deposited on Nov. 14th. 



A male Yak [Poephagus grunniens), from Tibet, received in 

 exchange on Nov. 30th. 



Two Mountain Ka-Kas [Nestor notahilis) and 3 Kiwis (Apteryx 

 uvstrcdis), from New Zealand, deposited on Nov. 23rd. 



One Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga), captured in the North Sea, 

 presented by Capt. R. A. Allenby, R.N., on Nov. 5th. 



Mr. R. H. Burne, F.Z.S., exhibited the feet of a Common 

 Duiker (Cephcdophtts sp.) with extensive and moi-e or less 

 symmetrical overgrowth of the hoofs. The overgrowth was most 

 marked in the fore-feet, each hoof showing a tendency to an 

 inw^ard spiral twist. The specimen was presented to the Royal 

 College of Surgeons' Museum by Mr. Griilin, of the Pretoria 

 Museum, Transvaal. The Antelope was shot (wild) by a farmer, 

 in stony bush veldt country about 40 miles from Pretoria. 

 Nothing unusual was noticed in its gait or running powers. 



