MR. E. T. NEWTON ON A BLACK HARE. 441 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



March 21st, 1916. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, M.A., F.R.S., Tice-Pi-esident, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the Additions 

 to the Society's Menagerie dni-ing the month of February, 

 1916 :— 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of February was 36. Of these 30 were 

 acquireid by presentation, 5 were received on deposit, and 1 

 by pui-chase. 



The number of departures during the same period, by death 

 and removals, was 145. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be directed 

 to:— 



1 Preuss's Cercopitheque (Cercopithecus preussi), from the 

 Cameroons, presented by Major Sir George Noble, Bart., F.Z.S., 

 on February 21st. 



1 Korin Gazelle {Gazella 7-ufifrons), from the Soudan, presented 

 by Capt. William Dyer, on February 24th. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., 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, luifortunately, 

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

 short rabbit-like eai-s. • The head and back are black excepting 

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

 there are numerous long hairs with white tips. Lower down 

 upon the sides the fur becomes tawny and passes into white 

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

 light brown hair up the upper parts. 



The skull and limb bones show chai-acters 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. 



