No. 16. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



March 7tli, 1905. 



Dr. W. T. Blanford, O.I.E., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair, 



Dr. Albert Gray exhibited a series of lantern-slides in illus- 

 tration of remarks upon the membranous labyrinth of certain 

 animals. 



Mr. Henry Scherren, F.Z.S., called attention to pictures of 

 the Zebra in Aldrovanclus (1640) and the ' Commentarius ' of 

 Ludolphus (1691). In the course of his remarks he said that in 

 the seventeenth century Zebras (now known as Equips grevyi) 

 had been sent by the Euler of Abyssinia to the Governor of the 

 Dutch East India Company at Batavia, and to the Sultan of 

 Turkey, so that the species was seen in Europe two centuries 

 before the type of Equus grevyi reached France in 1882. In 

 proof, passages were cited from Philostorgius Ludolphus, Jean de 

 Thevenot, and other writers, 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited and made some 

 remarks on a series of spirit-specimens of Fishes from Lake 

 Chad and the Chari River, collected and presented to the British 

 Museum by Capt. G. B. Gosling. 



Mr. J. L, BoNHOTE, F.Z.S., gave an exhibition of hybrid Ducks 

 which had been bred in his aviaries at Cambridge. The crosses 

 exhibited dealt chiefly with four species, of which the following 

 were shown : — 



Anas boschas xA. 'pcecilorhyncha, 



Anas boschas x A. pcecilorhyncha x Dafila aciota, 



Anas boschas X A. pceciloi-hyncha xA. superciliosa, 



Anas boschas X A. pcecilorhyncha X A. superciliosa x D. acuta. 



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