92 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE [Feb. 6, 



February 6, 1894. 



Sir W. H. Floweb, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1894. 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of January was 78, of which 30 were by 

 presentation, 2 by birth, 34 by purchase, 4 by exchange, and 8 

 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 10<>. 



Amongst these attention should be specially called to a young 

 male Ounce, or Snow-Leopard (Felis undo), obtained by purchase 

 from Mr. J. S. Mackay, of Dunbar House, Kullu, Punjab, beiDg 

 the animal described in the letter from that gentleman read on the 

 7th of December last (see P. Z. S. 1893, p. 692). 



Mr. Sclater called attention to a fine mounted specimen of the 

 River-hog of Madagascar (PotamocJioerus edivarchi) from the Tring 

 Museum, lent for exhibition by the Hon. W. Rothschild, F.Z.S., 

 and remarked that three distinct species of this well-marked 

 Ethiopian genus (see Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 301) of Suidse were 

 now known : — 



1. PotamocJioerus africanus, which is believed to range from the 

 Cape throughout Eastern Africa up to Abyssinia, where it appears 

 as Nyctochcerus Jiassama of Heuglin (Ant. u. Buff. Suppl. p. 7 ; et 

 Fitz. Sitzungsb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Bd. liv. Abth. i. p. 586). 



2. PotamocJioerus penicillatus of West Africa (well figured in 

 Wolf and Sclater's Zoological Sketches, vol. i. pi. xxix.), which, as 

 well as P. africanus, has been frequently exhibited alive in our 

 Gardens (see List of Animals, 1883, p. 183). 



3. Potamochcerus edwardsi (see P. Z. S. 1875, p. 64, pi. xii.) from 

 Madagascar (at once known by its black under surface), of which a 

 specimen is now before us. 



Mr. J. T. Last, by whom the specimen exhibited had been ob- 

 tained, had kindly furnished the following field-notes on this 

 species : — 



" Of the Wild Boars in Madagascar there are two, perhaps three, 

 species. The largest (PotamocJioerus edtvardsi) is said to inhabil 

 the upland forest regions ; while a smaller species lives near the 

 coast. I was told by Befanatriki, an Antinosi king, that there is 

 also another species, much shorter in body than the two mentioned 

 above and of a white colour. I suggested to him that it mighl 

 be a white hog run wild, but he insisted that it is not a ' kiisu ' 

 (domesticated pig) but a ' lambu,' 'lambunula' (a wild boar). I 

 cannot vouch for the truth of his statement because I have not 

 seen the animal, but the king evidently believed in the infor- 

 mation he was giving me. 



" It is very difficult to say much about the habits and manners of 



