No. 106 . 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF TUE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



March 19th, 1912. 



S. F. Harmer, Esq., M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., 

 Vice-President, iu the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Messrs. E. Gerrard &, Sons sent for exhibition : — 



(a) A very fine head of a cow Sable Antelope, shot by Major 

 E. 0. F. Gangway, C.M.G., which was of interest in that the 

 mane was white instead of the normal dark bi-own, and in the 

 horns also being near the record for length. 



(b) The skull of an Isabelline Bear with eight well-marked 

 incisoi'S in the lower mandible instead of the normal six. 



(c) The skull of a Leopard with an injury to the nasals and 

 premaxillary bones which had arrested the shedding of the milk- 

 canines and the growth of the permanent canines. The skull 

 was quite adult and the remaining teeth were fully developed and 

 normal. 



(d) The skull of a Lion showing a severe injury or disease of 

 the left side of the palate and the upper mandible, which had not 

 affected the growth of the teeth. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited the skin and 

 skull of a Viverrine Carnivore from Tonkin, which, externally, was 

 remarkably like the Banded Civet {^Hemigalus hardwickei)^ but 

 whose skull and teeth proved to be completely difterent. It was 

 proposed to be called 



Chroxogale owstoni, gen. &, sp. nn. 



General coloration as in Heviigalus hardwickei. Skull with 

 long muzzle as in Eupleres. Incisor teeth broad, spatulate, 



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