1893.] MB. O. THOMAS ON XAJfOTRAGUS LIVINGSTONIANUS. 237 



March 14, 1893. 



Sir W. H. Floweb, K.C.B., LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



The Secretarj^ read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1893 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of February was 73, of which 43 were by 

 presentation, 6 by birth, 10 bj^ purchase, 10 received in exchange, 

 and 4 on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 91. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to two Terrapins 

 procured at Okinawa Shima, or Great Loochoo Island, by Mr. P. 

 A. Hoist, and kindly presented by that gentleman. Mr. Hoist 

 writes that Dr. L, Hoderlein has stated in a paper read before the 

 Asiatic Society that he could find no Tortoises whatever on the 

 Loochoo Islands. Mr. Hoist has therefore forAvarded these speci- 

 mens in order to show that Tortoises are certainly found there. 



Mr. Boulenger has kindly determined these Tortoises as being 

 Spengler's Terrapin, Nicoria sjpengUri (BouL, Cat. of Chelonians, 

 1889, p. 120). 



Mx. Oldfield Thomas exhibited a specimen of what he believed 

 to be Nmiotrcujus Uviiigstonianus, Kirk, which had been obtained 

 by Mr. A. H. JS^eumaun in Northern Zululand in April 1892. The 

 species had only previously been knoAvn from a very imperfect 

 scalp and skull obtained by Sir John Ivirk at Shupanga on the 

 Zambesi and described by him in the Proceedings of the Society^ 

 Although the horns of this Zulidand specimen, and also those o£ 

 a second example \\'hich Mr. Neumann had generously presented 

 to the National Collection, were stouter and heavier, without being 

 longer, than those of the type, Mr. Thomas had little hesitation 

 in referring them to the same species, the diHerence appearing to 

 be merely one of age. 



]V. liuinrjstoniaiws, as evidenced by Mr. Neumann's two perfect 

 specimens, differed from its near ally, li. moschatus, Von Diib., 

 the Zanzibar Antelope, in its decidedly larger size and thicker 

 hoi*ns,also in the much greater extension of the bony palate poste- 

 riorly behind the molars, and in its much brighter and more rufous 

 colour. In this last respect there was a considerable difference 

 between the two, the general colour above of N. moscliatus being 

 dull fawn-grey, \\-h.\\e in N. Jiving i^toni anus it M'as rich rufous 

 verging on chestnut ; the flanks and legs also Mer(3 far brighter 

 and more rufous. In the length of the cars and their coloration, 

 and in the general distribution of the body and limb colours, there 

 appeared to be a close agreement between the two species ; the 

 tail of N. liiinr/fitnnianus was, however, much more decidedly black 

 above than that of H. moschatus. 



1 P. Z. S. 1804, p. 057. , 



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