PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 17, 1893, 

 Sir W. H. Flo WEE, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the follo-wdug report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the mouth of December 1892 : — 



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

 gerie during the mouth of December ^^'as ■13, of which 18 were 

 by preseutatiou, 23 by purchase, and 2 on deposit. The total 

 number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, 

 was 14U. 



Mr. F. C. Selous, C.M.Z.S., exhibited the skull of au Antelope 

 believed to be a hybrid between the Sassaby (Babalis liuiata) 

 and the Hartebeest {B, caama), which he had transmitted to the 

 British Museum in 1890, and read the following letter which he 

 had addressed to Dr. Giinthor on the subject, dated Tati River, 

 Matubcieland, March 23rd, 1890 :— 



" I am sending you the skull of a very curious animal which 

 would puzzle you immensely if I did not tell you what it was. It 

 is the skull of a male cross-bred animal, betwoou a Tsessebe Antelope 

 (Bubalis lanata) and a Hartebeest (B. taania), the father probably 

 being one of the former Antelopes and the mother one of the 

 latter. This animal was shot a few miles from here, between the 

 Tati and Shashi rivers, by my old friend Cornelius van Rooyen, the 

 well-known Boer hunter. You will see that the skull of this animal 

 closely resembles that of a Hartebeest, whilst the horns are neither 

 like those of a Hartebeest nor those of a Tsessebe, but partake of 

 the characters of both, standing nearly straight up from the skull 



Proc. Zool. Soc. — 1893, No. I. 1 



