1893.] THE SECBETARY OK ADDITIOl^TS TO THE MENAGERIE. 729 



14. Tragelaphus angasi, Gray. 



Mr. Crawshay sends a skull of this species, which extends its 

 range still further northward. See P. Z. S. 1892, p. 98. 



15. Tragelaphus spekii, Scl. 



A frontlet of this Antelope is in Mr. Crawshay's series. Mr. 

 Sharpe (above) speaks of its occurrence in the swamps of Mweru. 



16. POTAMOCHCERUS AFEICANTJS (Schreb.). 



Both Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Crawshay have sent home heads, 

 apparently of this species, from the Mweru district. 



17. Phacochceeus jethiopious (Pall.). 



The Wart-hog, Mr. Sharpe tells us, is plentiful round Lake 

 Mweru. He sends two skulls and Mr. Crawshay also sends one. 



December 5, 1893. 



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



Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie dui-ing the month of November 1893 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of November was 71, of which 44 were by 

 presentation, 4 were by birth, 10 by purchase, and 13 received on 

 deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 

 by death and removals, was 99. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A Cunning Bassaris (Bassaris astuta), purchased November 

 15th. No example of this interesting carnivorous animal has been 

 exhibited in the Society's collection for many years. The only 

 individual previously received w as in the G-ardeus in 1853, and was 

 the subject of one of Mr. Wolf's Zoological Sketches. (See Wolf 

 and Scl., Zoological Sketches, vol. i. pi. xiv.). 



2. Two Jerboas, presented by Capt. R. A. Ogilby, P.Z.S., 

 November 17th, and believed to be referable to one of the Persian 

 Jerboas {Alactcuja decumcma), but the locality of these specimens is 

 not quite certain. 



3. A fine adrlt female of the Caucasian Goat (Capra caucaska), 

 presented by H. H. P. Deasy, Esq., 10th Queen's Lancers, Nov. 

 20th. Mr. Deasy informs me that he obtained a pair of these 

 animals (the " Tur " of the Caucasus) at a village calhnl liu/bef 

 on the river Backsan, lat. 43° 20' 0" N., long. 20^ 43' 35" E., and 

 had every reason to believe that they were caught on the neigh- 

 bouring mountains. 



Unfortunately the male died on the passage homo. 



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