No. 110. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PliOOEEDlNGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



May 21st, 1912. 

 Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bt., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a report on the Additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1912. 



Mr. A. Blayney Percival, F.Z.S., exhibited a number of 

 photographs and lantern-slides of Game Animals from British 

 East Africa, including a fine series of the Reticulated Giraffe. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., Curator of Birds, exhibited two 

 living specimens of a rare Lory, Calliptilus solitarius, from Fiji, 

 and remarked that Dr. Philip H. Bahr had recently brought 

 home two specimens which had died. The specimens exhibited 

 were from a collection of eight brought home alive by Mr. Rood 

 Tarte, of Taviuni Island, one of the Fijian group, where this verj' 

 beautiful species was still abundant, its numbers having been 

 very considerably reduced in the other islands by the introduced 

 mongoose. The exhibitor referred to a recent note on the species 

 by Dr. Bahr in ' The Ibis' for April 1912, p. 293. 



Major J. Stevenson Hamilton, C.M.Z.S., the Game Warden of 

 the Transvaal, communicated a short paper, illustrated by photo- 

 graphs, on the local races of Burchell's Zebra, and pointed out that 

 it was possible to shoot in one herd individuals presentiiig the 

 characters of various subspecies as described by systematists. In 

 the Transvaal, for example, he obtained skins exhibiting features 

 claimed to be distinctive of such races as E. burchelli wahlbergi, 

 E. b. tra7isvaalensis, and E. h. chapmanni ; and from his experience 



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