MR. G. JENNISON ON A HYBRID SEA-LION, 219 
February 17, 1914. 
Prof. E. A. Mincutn, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Srecrerary read the following report on the additions 
to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January 
1914 :— 
The number of registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie 
during the month of January was 151. Of these 73 were 
acquired by presentation, 23 by purchase, 23 were received on 
deposit, and 32 in exchange. 
The number of departures during the same period, by death 
and removals, was 209. 
Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to :— 
A pair of Park Cattle (Bos tawrws), from Chillingham, presented 
by the Karl of Tankerville, F.Z.8., on January 28th. 
A pair of Indian Wild Dogs (Cyon dukhunensis), from Nagpur, 
presented by Mrs. H. A. Crump on January 23rd. 
1 Brown-shouldered Hangnest (/eterus pyrrhopterus), from 
Brazil, new to the Collection, presented by T. W. Smith, Esq., 
on January 20th. 
2 Cuban Conures (Conurus ewops), new to the Collection, 
presented by the Marquess of Tavistock, F.Z.S.,on January 23rd. 
1 Abingdon-Island Tortoise (Zestudo abingdoni), from the 
Galapagos Islands, new to the Collection, purchased on January 
12th. j 
1 Queensland Long-necked Terrapin (Chelodina expansa), from 
Queensland, new to the Collection, purchased on January 19th. 
A Hybrid Sea-Lion. 
Mr. Grorce JENNISON sent for exhibition a mounted specimen 
of a hybrid Sea-Lion (Ofaria pusilla § x O. californiana 9), 
which had been born in the Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, 
together with photographs of another specimen now living in the 
same Gardens, and the following notes :— 
“Both the parents, O. pusilla g and O. californiana 9°, 
arrived here as immature specimens. The male had been over 
four years, the female six years in the Collection when the 
first pup was born in June, 1911. It was found dead. The 
next one, in 1912, lived only about a day. It was taken 
from the parents who were tossing it about. The keeper 
(J. Craythorne) came to the conclusion that the ill-treatment 
was nervousness and excessive solicitude, and accordingly 
separated the female a few days before the next birth was 
expected, and prepared a corner fenced from the water into 
which he took the pup—they are always born on land—when 
it was born on June 15th, 1913. The mother followed the little 
