890 MR. R. I. rococK ON [Dec. 15, 



December 15, 1908. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions 

 made to the Society's Menagerie daring the month of ISTovember 

 1908 :— 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of November was 91. Of these 50 were acquired 

 by presentation, 18 by purchase, 12 were received on deposit, 10 by 

 exchange, and one was born in the Gardens. 



The number of departures during the same period, by death 

 and removals, was 190. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be directed 

 to:— 



Two Walruses {Odohcenus rosmarus) from Franz Josef Land ; 

 purchased on Nov. 23rd. 



One Sumatran Civet {Viverra tangcdunga) from Sumatra; pre- 

 sented by A. E. Heath, Esq., on Nov. 24th. 



Two Pardine Genets {Genetta pardina) from Warri, Southern 

 Nigei-ia; presented by E. G. Stevens, Esq., on Dec. 13th. 



Mr. Frederick Gillett, V.P.Z.S., gave an account of his recent 

 Hunting Trip to the Thian Shan, illustrated by lantern-slides. 



Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Superintendent of the Society's 

 Gardens, exhibited photographs of a Sumatran Tiger, recently 

 purchased by the Society, and made remarks upon this animal and 

 upon the other Tigers at present living in the Gardens. He 

 said : — " This Tiger, a male, was one of a litter obtained by 

 Mr. Pinckney at Deli in Sumatra. Its ground-colour is noticeably 

 darker and duller in hue than in the Indian and Siberian Tigers 

 in the adjoining cages. The stripes are numerous, closely placed, 

 and broad, nearly all of those on the sides of the body, behind the 

 shoulders, and on the hind -quarters, being looped or reduplicated. 

 The shoulder is scantily striped, and the outside of the fore leg 

 nearly unstriped, except for one or two narrow stripes across the 

 wrist and a few abbreviated stripes along the back of the leg below 

 the elbow, which are continuous with those on the inner side of 

 this limb. The inner sides of both fore and hind limbs are fully 

 striped to the feet. The pale areas over the eyes, on the cheeks, 

 chest, belly, and inside of the limbs are only dirty white and not 

 sharply defined from the yellow-brown hue of the rest of the body. 

 The yellow-brown hue of the muzzle extends over the whisker- 

 area down to the black patch round tlie corner of tlie mouth 



