PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1901, Vol. I. (January to April). 



January 15, 1901. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1900 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December 1900 were 211 in number. Of these 91 were 

 acquired by presentation and 16 by purchase, and 104 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 158. 



Amongst the additions attention may be specially directed to 

 the seven specimens of Verreaux's Guinea-fowl (Outtera edouardi) 

 presented on December 31st by Mr. J. F. Walker of Bulawayo. 

 Mr. Walker states that this Guinea-fowl is found only, so far as 

 he knows, in the Wankie Hills, a district due north of Bulawayo, 

 and about midway between that city and the Zambesi. Only one 

 specimen of it had previously reached the Society's aviaries (see 

 P.Z. S. 1890, p. 86). 



I wish also to direct attention to the valuable series of Indian 

 birds lately presented to the Society by Mr. E. W. Harper, F.Z.S., 

 of Calcutta, consisting of examples of twenty species, all new to 

 the Society's Collection, of which the following is a list. 



Pkoo. Zool. Soc— 1901, Vol. I. No. I. 1 



