228 OCCURRENCE OF THE OKAPI IN THE CONGO FOREST. [Feb. 16, 



Febi-uaiy 16, 1904. 



Herbert Druce, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following repoit on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie in January 1904 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of January were 57 in number. Of these 26 were acquired 

 by pi-esentation and 4 by pui-chase, 1 was born in the Gardens, 

 and 26 were received on deposit. The total number of depar- 

 tures during the same period, by death and removals, was 124. 



Among the additions special attention may be called to the 

 following : — 



1. A fine specimen of the Hainan Gibbon {Hylohateshainanus), 

 deposited on Jan. 25th. 



2. A specimen of a Philippine Hornbill {Penelopides affinis), 

 pi-esented by Mrs. Johnstone on Jan. 26th, and new to the 

 Collection. 



The Seci'etaiy read the following lettei- addi'essed to Sir Haiiy 

 Johnston, K.C.M.G., K.C.B., by the late Mr. W. G. Doggett, 

 dated Anglo-German Boundary Commission, Uganda, November 

 3rd, 1903 :— 



" Since writing last I have collected more information as to the 

 'Okapi' from a 'Mububa' native of the Mboga country, who is 

 travelling with our Sudanese escort. I am doing my best to get 

 this man as a guide to his country, where he says the ' Okapi ' is 

 to be found in large herds. He also says that there is another 

 large Antelope like the ' Okapi ' which they call ' Shaw-le,' and 

 which lives in the nioi'e open countiy. He goes on to say that the 

 ' Okapi ' found in ' Mboga ' has horns about 18 inches long with 

 two curves (only in males). 



" So if I get a permit I shall certainly go and see what can be 

 got there. I hope by the next mail I shall be able to send you a 

 photograph of Lake ' Ruakatenge ' and a few notes, for the African 

 Society's Journal. It's within two hoiu-s of our present camp." 



The Seci-etary remai'ked that since his journeys into this part 

 of the Congo Foi'est (to the west of the Semliki Rivei-) Sir Harry 

 Johnston was of opinion that the reports of the natives, made to 

 himself, to Stanley, to Doggett, and to such other travellers as 

 had recorded them, pointed to the existence, possibly, not only of 

 the Okapi which has now been made known, but of two other 

 mammalian types in this north-eastern fringe of the Congo Foi'Cst. 

 If the i-eports about these other creatures are as well based as were 

 those of the Okapi, they would indicate the existence in North- 

 east Congoland of another large ruminant, possibly a Trage- 

 laphine, and a large pig-like animal. He was informed by 



