No. 140. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



February 23rd, 1915. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Secretary to the 

 Society, exhibited mounted examples of three species of Cock- 

 roach, Periplaneta americana, P. orientalis, and Phyllodroiaia 

 germanica, all of which had established themselves in different 

 houses in the Society's Gardens, and stated his wish that some 

 naturalist would endeavour to work out the causes of the selective 

 distribution of these insects. 



Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, ex- 

 hibited, on behalf of Mr. Edward Gerrard, the mounted head 

 of a male Sitatunga Antelope shot by Capt. H. D. Bentinck 

 on the Bahr-el-Gazal. Instead of being dark brown, the colour 

 characteristic of the males of this buck, the head was whitish 

 brown, suggesting that the individual was a partial albino. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., Cimator of Birds, exhibited, on 

 behalf of Mr. Edward Gerrard, a pair of Daurian or Bearded 

 Partridges (Perdix daurica), which had recently been purchased 

 in the flesh, at a poulterer's shop in London. Numbers of these 

 partridges arrive in London and other large European towns 

 every winter in a frozen state, and are sold under the name of 



* This Abstract is published by the Society at its offices, Zoological Gardens, 

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