No. 151. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.' 



February 8th, 1916. 



Prof. E. W. MacBridb, D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the Society's 

 Menaoerie during the months of November and December, 1915, 

 and January 1916. 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited the skull of a Roebuck, showing 

 an unusual deviation in the direction of the suture of the right 

 frontal bone, which extended considerably beyond the median 

 line towards the left. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited the scalp and 

 frontlet with horns of a male Sable Antelope from the Luando 

 River, Angola, which had been presented to the National 

 Museum by Mr. H. F. Varian, together with a female mask and 



horns. 



This magnificent animal difi'ered widely from the ordinary 

 Sable both by its far finer horns and by the character of its face- 

 markings, and Mr. Thomas proposed to distinguish it as a new 

 subspecies under the name of EipiMragus niger variani. 



The horns of the type measured 57 inches in length along the 

 front curve, by 11 inches in circumference at the base, and had 



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