No. 1. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



January 19th, 1904. 



G. A. BouLENGER, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during Kovember and December 

 1903, and called special attention to a fine young male Orang 

 Outang {Simia satyrus) obtained by purchase on November 27th. 



The Secretary exhibited two skins of the Transvaal Bustard 

 {Trachelotis harrovii) sent to him by Capt. R. Crawshay, F.Z.S., 

 who had shot the birds at Piet Retief, in the Transvaal. From 

 examination of the contents of the stomachs sent home by Capt. 

 Crawshay, he was able to state that these Bustards devoured 

 ants in large numbers. He also made remarks on the specific 

 difierences between T. harrovii and T. senegalensis. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, the Superintendent of the Gardens, exhibited 

 two photographs, taken by Mr. J. fiblliott Darling, F.Z.S., of a 

 young hybiid Waterbuck, about three months old, between Kobus 

 defassa unctuosus S and K. ellipsipryninus $ , bred in the 

 Society's Gardens. In general colour it favoured the dam rather 

 than the sire, being decidedly less rufous in tint than the latter, 

 although not so grizzly black as the former. There was, however, 

 practically no trace of the white elliptical rump- mark so charac- 

 teristic of K. eUipsi23ry7nm(,s, which indicated reversion to the 

 ancestral type of colour. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited a Gazelle obtained 

 by Mr. A. E. Butter in N.E. Africa, which he considered to 

 form a new subspecies of Gazella soeiiwierringii. It was defined as 

 follows : — 



Gazella s. butteri, subsp. n. 



General characters of G. soemmerringii and herherana, but 



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