1901.] THE SECRETAHY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 165 



March 5, 1901. 



W. T. Blanfoed, Esq., LL.D., F.E.S., A^ice-President, 

 ill the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report ou the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1901 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of February was 118, of which 38 were 

 by presentation, 27 by purchase, 4 were received in exchange 

 and 49 on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 139. 



Among the additions special attention may be called to : — 

 (1) An August Amazon (CA)7/50<isfm^((s^a) from Dominica, obtained 

 by purchase on February 11th. Upon one occasion only have we 

 previously received a living example of this fine bird, viz. on May 

 12th, 1865 (see P. Z. S. 1865, p. 437). We have now no less than 

 three of these rare Antillean Parrots represented in the Society's 

 Collection, viz;., Chrysotis versicolor, from St. Lucia (received Oct. 2, 

 1900), G. bouqueii, from Dominica (obtained Oct. 8] , 1900), and 

 the present species C. augiista. 



(2) A Guinea-fowl obtained from Eabat, Morocco, and presented 

 to the Society by Gr. E. JNTeroutsos, Esq., H.B.M. Vice-Consul at 

 that Port, on February loth. 



When staying at Tangier in October last I was informed of the 

 occurrence of a wild Guinea-fowl in the vicinity of Eabat. and 

 requested the assistance of Mr. H. E. White, C.'M.Z.S., H.B.M. 

 Consul, to obtain specimens for the Society. Mr. White kindly 

 wrote to Mr. Neroutsos on the subject, and, after several ineffectual 

 shipments, we have, through his kindness, received a single speci- 

 men. I was hoping that, from the locality, it would turn out to be 

 something new, but so far as I can tell at present, it appears to be 

 nothing moi^e than the ordinary Numida meleagris. However, the 

 locality,, so far as I know, is a new one for this bird, unless, as 

 is possible, it may have been introduced, as has been the case in 

 some of the Cape de Verde Islands. 



Several enquiries having been made as to the specimens of the 

 Quagga (Eqiius quagga) that have lived in the Society's Menagerie, 

 I may state that, on looking into the books, I can only discover 

 records of three Quaggas having been received, as follows : — 



1. Purchased Nov. 5th, 1831. There is no record as to the 



death of this animal, but it may probably be the same 

 specimen that was afterwards in the Society's Museum. 

 See Waterhouse's Cat. of Mamm. p. 37 (1838). 



2. Femcde. Purchased March 15th, 1851. Died July 7th, 



1872. The specimen was sold to Mr. E. Gerrard, and is 

 now in the Zoological Museum at Tring. Of this animal 

 I exhibit a photograph taken in the summer of 1870 by 

 Messrs. York and Son (see text -fig. 47, p. 166). 

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