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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;^" 



March 1st, 1904. 

 Dr. A. GuNTHBK, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following motion, of which notice was given at the Meeting 

 held on February 1 6th, was put to the Meeting and declared to be 

 lost by a very large majority ; — 



" That it is desirable to alter the hour of the Meetings 

 for Scientific Business from 8.30 p.m. to 5 p.m." 



Dr. A. GiJiSTTHER, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks upon 

 some specimens of hybrids between Reeves' Pheasant [Phasiauios 

 reevesi), c? , and the Silver Pheasant {Majdocamas ni/ctheme- 

 rios), $ . 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited the skull of a 

 Buffalo which had been obtained by Col. Delme-Badcliffe in 

 Ankole, S.W. Uganda. It was of the Btibcdus caffer type, but 

 was distinguished by the flatness and breadth of the palms of 

 its horns, as compared to their convexity in B. caffer. Mr. Thomas 

 considered it to represent a distinct local race, which he proposed 

 to call B. caff'er radcUffei. 



The typical skull measured 505 mm. in basal length, the outer 

 spread of the horns was 1106 mm., and their palm was 295 mm. 

 in breadth, but only about 115 mm. in thickness. 



An old female skull was 455 mm. in basal length, with a 

 greatest horn-spread of 845 mm. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas also exhibited a rare Fruit-Bat of the 

 genus Scotomjcteris, which had been obtained in Fernando Po by 



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