818 MR. E. LYDEKKER ON THE 



June 3, 1913. 



Prof. E. W. MacBridb, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. D. SETH-SMrrH, F.Z.S., Curator of Birds, exhibited the 

 egg and young of the Mikado Plieasant (Galoj^hasis mikado), a 

 rare species, described first in 1906, from the mountains of 

 Formosa. Some living specimens had been imported in 1912 by 

 Mr. Walter Goodfellow, and the owners of these birds had 

 entrusted the eggs to the Zoological Society, where they were 

 being hatched. 



The egg was cream-coloured and very large compared with 

 those of allied species of pheasants, measuring 57 X 41 mm. 



The incubation period proved to be twenty-eight days, instead 

 of twenty-four as in the majority of pheasants, and the young 

 when newly hatched were very large, and had the quill-feathers 

 better developed than was the case in allied species. 



PAPERS. 



45. The Transvaal Race of the Cape, or Khama, Hartebeest*. 

 By B. Lydkeker, F.R.S., F.Z.S. t 



[Received April 1, 1913 : Read April 8, 1913.] 



(Text-figure 135.) 



Description of Bubalis caama selhornei 819 



In their excellent volume, ' The Sportsman in South Africa,' 

 Messi-s. Nicolls and Eglington describe (p. 45) the Cape, or Rooi, 

 Hartebeest {Buhalis caama), probably from fresh specimens, as 

 follows : — 



" General colour reddish brown, with violet tinge throughout ; 

 dark plum-coloured saddle-patch, commencing at point of shoul- 

 der, extends over entire surface of back and ends in root of tail ; 

 a similar patch extends over each shoulder, downwards as far as 

 knees, and front of shin-bones of fore-legs ; pale yellowish patch 

 on cheeks of rump ; front of face, which is very long, almost 

 black, as is a stripe down back of neck." 



In their figure of the head (pi. iv. fig. 13) the broad face-blaze 

 is shown as extending uninterruptedly from the base of the horns 



* [The complete account of this new subspecies appears here, but since the name 

 and a preliminary diagnosis were published in the 'Abstract,' No. 119, 1913, it is 

 distinguished by being underlined. — Editoe.] 



f By permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



