1907.] ON ENGLISH DOM?:STIC CATS. 143 February 19, ]!J07. Sir Edmund G. Lodkji, Jit., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions that had been made to the (Society's Menagerie in January 1907 : — The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of Januaiy were 108 in number. Of these 55 were aa^uired by presentation and 11 by purchase, 41 wei-e received on deposit, and 1 was born in the Gardens. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 163. Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to : — An Agile Gibbon {fTylohates a'jilis) from Borneo, purchased on Jan. 17th. A Wild Cat {Frills catus) from Inverness-shire, presented by Mr. G. W. Henderson, F.Z.S., on Jan. 26th. Two Superb Tanagers {Calliste faMuosa), a Crowned Tanager ( Tachyphonus coronatus), and two Scarlet Tanagers {Rhmn/phocfdus hrasiUus), from Brazil, purchased on Jan. 21st. Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., exhibited remains of a Bear from the supei-ficial deposits of a cavern in the mountains of Corsica, where Bears, though now extinct, were formerly nume-rous, at least up to the sixteenth centuiy. Despite the fact that no truly fossil Beai-s were as yet known froiri Coi-sica, Dr. Forsyth Major considered the Corsican Bear to have been autochthonous whilst in his opinion the recent Mammals of Corsica (and Sardinia) had been, almost without exception, introduced by human agency. In any case they could not be adduced as proofs of a i-ecent connection of those islands with either of the neighbouring continents. The following papers were read ; — 1. On English Domestic Cats. By R. I. PocoCK, F.L.S., F.Z.iS., Superintendent of the Zoolooical Society's Gardens. [Received February 5, YMfJ.'\ (Plates VIII.-X.* and Text-figui-e 60.) 1 . The ClfMsiJication of Eitfjlish Domestic Cats. Domestic Cats in Great Britain are classified by the iS^ational Cat Club under two headings: — (1) Short-haired; (2) Long-haired, otherwise called "Persians" or "Angoras." The "Persians" are subdivided according to colour into "Blacks" * For explanation of the Platfcs, see ],]>. 107, 168.
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