No. 27. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



February 20 th, 1906. 



G. A. BouLENGEB, Esq., F.R.S., Vice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Menagerie during the month of January 1906, and 

 called special attention to a Snow- Leopard [Fells tmcia) presented 

 by Major A. H. Hussey, R.H.A., an Aard Wolf (Proteles 

 cristatus), purchased, and a Salt-Marsh Oavy {Dolichotis salinicola), 

 received on deposit. 



The Secretary also read a letter fi'om Maj.-Gen. Sir Reginald 

 Talbot, K.C.B., Governor of Victoria, giving an account of the 

 supposed breeding of a mule. An illustration of the dam and 

 foal from ' The Australasian ' accompanied the letter, 



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

 a photograph of a Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) carrying its 

 young on its back. 



Dr. A. Smith Wcodward. F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a new 

 drawing of the skeleton of the Triassic Rhynchocephalian, Rhyncho- 

 saurus articeps, from the Keuper Sandstone of Shi'opshire. He 

 pointed out the differences between this ancient reptile and the 

 modern &phenodo7i, especially noting the great expansion of its 

 coracoids and ischia, and the probably diminutive size of its 

 sternum. He infei'red from the everted rims of the upwardly- 

 turned orbits, and from the sigmoidal bend of the femur, that 

 Khynchosattrtis was to a great degree aquatic in habit. 



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