84 OX ANTELOPES FROM FASIIODA AND THE BOB AT RIVER. [Feb. 6, 



mammals is the discovery of Dorcotragus in the Blue Xile Valley. 

 Up to now, the only known habitat of this Antelope was a few 

 flat-topped hills scattered about Somaliland, where it has been met 

 with in very small numbers. Lord Lovat gives me the following 

 note respecting it : — 



"The Beira Antelope is common all down the Blue Xile to 

 Roseires ; it inhabits the slopes leading down to the river-bed, and 

 is also seen on the barer hill-tops. Some specimens were seen 

 with considerablv better heads than the ones I shot. The natives 

 call the animal 'El Mor '." 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. 



Ucndromys lovati, p. >i'2. 



February 6, 1900. 

 Howard Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the mouth of January 1000. 



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

 gerie during the month of January was 105, of which 29 were by 

 presentation, 12 by purchase, 62 were received on deposit, and 

 2 were born in the Menagerie. The total number of departures 

 during the same period, by death and removals, was 140. 



The middle of winter seems to be an unusual time for a South 

 European Passerine Bird to breed ; yet a young Black-headed 

 Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala) is entered in our register as 

 having been hatched on Jan. 21st. The Head-keeper sends me 

 the following report on this occurrence : — 



About the middle of January last, a young Black-headed 

 Bunting was observed in the Western Aviary by the keeper. A 

 pair of this species of Bunting was purchased from a dealer in 

 Dover in April 1899. No nest was built, and the egg or egga 

 were laid in an old thrush's nest in the ivy growing in the Aviary. 

 The keeper had no idea that the birds were breeding, until he 

 missed the female. On shaking the ivy the bird flew out, and a 

 few days afterwards the young bird appeared. Xo traces of eggs 

 were found in the nest. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited the heads of some rare Antelopes 

 from Fashoda and the Sobat Biver which had been submitted to him 

 by Messrs. Rowland Ward & Co. They had been obtained by 

 the late Capt. H. G. Majendie, of the Rifle Brigade. 



The most interesting was a tine head of Mrs. Gray's Waterbuck 

 (Cobus marke Gray), of which no perfect examples had come to 



