No. 154. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY .OF LONDON.'^ 



March 21st, 1916. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, 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 made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1916, 



Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S.j'F.Z.S., exhibited the pelt and bones 

 of a Black Hare, for which he was under obligation to Mr. G. F. 

 Brooke of Leadenhall Market, who had received it with a large 

 consignment of Brown Hares from Siberia ; but, unfortunately, 

 the locality was not known. This hare is of small size and with 

 short rabbit-like ears. The head and back are black excepting 

 only a small white spot on the forehead ; and towards the sides 

 there ai'e numerous long hairs with white tips. Lower down 

 upon the sides the fur becomes tawny and passes into white 

 imderneath. All the feet, but especially the hinder ones, have 

 light bi-own hair up the upper parts. 



The skull and limb bones show characters agreeing with those 

 of the hare ; but in size the animal was intermediate between 

 our common hare and the rabbit. 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson, F.Z.S., gave an account of some obser- 

 vations he had made on the habits and life-history of Platypus 

 and Echidna. 



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