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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



OXE OF THE GREAT ALASKAN BROWN BEARS. 



of Africa stands pre-eminent. If our wild 

 representatives of the Dark Continent could 

 really be marshaled in one long caravan, 

 the spectacle would be highly impressive. 

 Looming up in front would be a pair of Sudan 

 Elephants, with the enormous external ear- 

 area so characteristic of that species. Behind 

 them would come the Pigmy West African 

 Elephant of the French Congo, with small 

 roimd ears, and tusks of great length for so 

 diminutive an elephant. A pair of Black 

 Rhinoceroses would come next, followed by a 

 Hippopotamus, a Wart-Hog and the Red 

 River-Hog, which, be it remarked, is the only 

 beautiful swine species in the world. 



Of the wild equines there would appear the 

 Mountain Zebra, rarest of all species ; the Grevy 

 Zebra, one of the largest and in some ways 

 the most remarkable : the Grant Zebra, and 

 Chapman's. To these the Somali ^^'ild Ass 

 must be added as soon as circumstances will 

 permit. 



As all the world knows, Africa is singularly 

 weak in species of sheep and deer. The whole 

 of the Dark Continent produces only one 



s]K'cics of sheep, the Aoudad, which inhabits 

 the mountains of the Barbary States of North 

 Africa. Africa's one species of deer, which 

 also represents the Barbary States, never has 

 been exhibited in the Park. 



When we approach Africa's magnificent 

 group of antelopes and giraffes, it is hardly 

 possible to recall from memory the species in 

 our collection without risking the omission of 

 something important. If there is anywhere 

 gathered in one spot a larger collection of 

 African antelopes than is to be found here, we 

 are not aware of it. 



Although the Giraffe is not to be regarded 

 as an "antelope," there is some excuse for 

 placing our pair of Nubian Three-PIorned 

 Giraffes in the Antelope House, where they 

 have thriven for five years, and during which 

 time the male has grown from ten to fourteen- 

 feet-six in height. 



The Eland, largest of all African antelopes, 

 has been with us since 1903. and has bred here 

 once. We rejoice in the possession of a fine 

 male Sable Antelope, a Greater Kudu, and 

 Baker's Roan Antelope, three species of great 



