192 MR. W. E. DE WINTON ON [ Mar. 3, 
glad of your opinion. In the same parcel I enclose a Lake Otter 
skin,” 
Mr. F. KE. Beddard, F.R.S., exhibited the mounted skin of the 
Greater Bird of Paradise (Paradisea apoda) that had lately died 
in the Society’ Gardens. 
Mr. J. L. Bonhote, F.Z.8., exhibited a photograph of two tame 
Hlephants in Ceylon accompanied by a baby one, which latter 
showed a considerable amount of hair, especially on the forehead. 
One of the old Elephants in the photograph, presumably the 
mother, also showed a certain amount of hair, 
With reference to a recent paper by Col. C. K. Stewart, dealing 
with the real home of the Tiger, Mr. J. L. Bonhote said that he 
had asked a friend of his, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge, as to 
whether there was a word fox the tiger in Sanskrit ; the reply was 
in the affirmative, the word being vyaghra (or in the Pali form, 
vyaggho). This note was not brought forward against the fact 
of the original home of the tiger being in the north, but to support 
Mr. Thomas’s contention that it had not spread south so recently 
as Col. Stewart was inclined to believe. 
Professor F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a 
Holothurian of the genus Actinopyga from shallow water off 
Zanzibar, in which there was not only an oral extremity with 
tentacles, as in the Cucwmaria planci described some ten years 
since by Prof. Ludwig, but also an anal extremity; these additions 
(whether the result of gemmation or of fission cannot at present 
be said) do not occur in the same radius of the Holothurian. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On a new Species of Pigmy Antelope of the Genus 
Neotragus from the Cameroons District, W. Africa. 
By W. E. pz Winton, F.Z.8. 
[Received March 3, 1903. ] 
(Plate XIX. & Text-fig. 29.) 
In a collection lately received from Mr. G. L. Bates from the 
Cameroons are two specimens, male and female, of a new form of 
Pigmy Antelope, adding a second species to the genus Neotragus. 
I propose to name this very interesting new form in honour of the 
collector, who has added so much to our knowledge of the fauna 
of the Cameroons country. 
