PROCEEDINGS 



OF TUB 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 17, 1888. 

 Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1887 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of December was 35, of which 17 were by 

 presentation, 2 by birth, 2 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 12 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 117. 



Amongst these I may call attention to a small Fox from Afghanistan, 

 presented by Lieut.-Col. Sir Oliver B. C. St. John, K.C.S.L, F.Z.S., 

 which should probably be referred to the species shortly noticed by 

 Blyth (Journal As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxiii. p. 730, 1884) as Vulpes 

 griffithi. It is, however, as Mr. Blanford informs me, somewhat 

 doubtful whether the species is really distinct from VuJpes leuoopus 

 (Blyth), the small Desert-Fox of Western India. 



This specimen has been lodged in the New Wolves' and Foxes' 

 Dens lately finished, to which I wish to call special attention, as 

 this is the first occasion on which our specimens of the genus Canis 

 have been arranged in a connected series. I add a list of the speci- 

 mens now living in the collection : — 



List of Specimens of the Genus Canis now living in the Society's 



Gardens. 



1, 2. Canis lupus, cj 5 . Received in exchange, Dec. 5, 1887. 

 3. Canis luptis, S- Presented by C. S. Hardy, Esq., Dec. 14, 

 1887. This is a large animal of unknown origin, and may 

 possibly be referable to Canis occidentalis of North America. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1888, N«Hfcrr^ 1 



