126 NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



park would indeed lend enchantment to the view. 

 In Italy the experiment has already been made, and 

 the herd of sixty head belonging to the King of 

 Italy is a good object lesson. The nilgai stands for 

 the study of animals amid natural surroundings, 

 on an ampler scale than can be attempted in the 

 best regulated Zoo ; and though one may never 

 see bison roaming over Exmoor, giraffes in the New 

 Forest, or musk oxen in the Highlands, yet as 

 an incentive to wider study in the future one may 

 reasonably count on the success already achieved 

 with that charming antelope or rather tragelaph 

 the nilgai. 



