No. 17. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



March 21st, 1905. 

 G. A. BouLENGER, Esq., F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chan\ 



The Secketary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie duidng the month of February 

 1905, and called special attention to a female Kiang [Bquus 

 hemionus kiang) deposited by H.M. The King ; to a male Lynx 

 {Felis lynx) from the Caucasus and a male Leopard of the Persian 

 race {Felis pardus tulUana), received in exchange ; and to a semi- 

 albino variety of the Common Fox [Canis vulpes), received on 

 deposit. 



The Secretary also read an extract from a letter from Mrs. S. 

 L. Hinde describing the act of a Duiker [Cephalophits sp. inc.) 

 killing a Partridge and devouring its head, which it was thought was 

 committed by the animal to gratify its desire for salt. 



Mr. Frederick Gillett, F.Z.S., exhibited a photograph of a 

 wounded Oryx {Oryx beisa) hiding in undergrowth of wood in 

 its native haunts, in order to show the protective nature of the 

 coloration of the animal. 



Mr. C. Tate Regan, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon 

 a series of pencil sketches of Fishes of the Rio Negro and its 

 tribu.taries made by Dr. A. R. Wallace about fifty years ago. 



Mr. Macleod Yearsley, F.Z.S., exhibited a radiograph of a 

 living Snake showing the skeletons of two frogs it had swallowed 

 some hours previously. 



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