1893.] MR. P, L. SCLATER ON THE GIBRALTAR MONKEYS. 325 



AprU 18, 1893. 



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



Chair. 



The Secretary read the follo^^•ing report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of March: — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of March were 107 in number. Of these 58 were acquired 

 by presentation, 17 by purchase, 5 by exchange, 21 M-ere born in 

 the Gardens, and 6 were received on deposit. The total number 

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

 was 118. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. Three AVhite-tailed Gnus (ConnocJicetes [/nu), from the Trans- 

 vaal (a male and two females), obtained by purchase March 7th. 



2. Three Spring-boks ( GazeUa eucliore), from South Africa, de- 

 posited by H.E.H. the Prince of Wales. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of a singular variety of a (female) 

 Pig-tailed Monkey, Macacus nemestrimis, from the Baram River, 

 Sarawak, Borneo, which had been deposited in the Society's 

 Gardeiis by Major F. Day, on the 13th July, 1892, and had died 

 on the 9th January of the present year. The specimen was 

 of a dark fulvous above, darker in the mesial line, much paler on 

 the lower surface, and gi'owiug nearly white on the middle of the 

 chest. Mr. Charles Hose, ^^ho was well acquainted \^dth the 

 specimen, had informed Mr. Sclater that it had been captured by 

 the natives of the Baram Eiver about five years ago, and had 

 not grown since it was in captivity. Major Day had obtained it 

 from the Rajah of the district, Mr. Hose had no doubt of its 

 being simply a variety of Macacus nemestrimcs, in which opinion 

 Mr. Sclater fully concurred, but thought the specimen worthy of 

 notice. 



Mr. Sclater read a communication from General Sir Lothian 

 Nicholson, K.C.B., R.E., Governor of Gibraltar, which he had 

 received during a recent visit to Gibraltar. 



In reply to inquiries about the present condition of the Barbary 

 Apes (Macacus hums) on the Rock, Sir Lothian stated that they 

 were now distinctly increasing in numbers. He had himself counted 

 as many as thirty in one group, and, according to some reports, there 

 were altogether as many as double that number on the Rock. In 

 fact they were so numerous and their depredations had become so 

 serious that a short time ago an agitation had been got up for 

 their reduction in numbers, and it would perhaps be necessary to 

 thin them a little, but their extermination was quite out of the 

 question and would not be thouglit of. 



