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others driven apparently as trophies or tribute. 

 The Musee Alaoui at Tunis contains a Roman 

 pavement depicting a lion attacking a beast supposed 

 to be a leucoryx. 



Hemprich and Ehrenberg were the first modern 

 naturalists to meet with the present species and to 

 bring home examples; they saw it in 1820-1825 

 in Dongola, between Ambukol and Simrie, and 

 hunted it on horseback with the Arabs. Lichtenstein 

 of Berlin described and figured the species about 

 1827 ; his work was, however, somewhat anticipated 

 by the presence of an adult male from Senegal in 

 the Jardin des Plantes menagerie as early as 1819. 

 The first living example in England seems to have 

 been the individual which was brought home about 

 J ^35 by Mr. Musket, and passed into the possession 

 of his mother at Edmonton. The animal a female 

 subsequently became troublesome, and in 1837 

 Mrs. Musket gladly sold it to Lord Derby for ^50; 

 the Earl added it to his collection at Knowsley. 

 Some time afterwards M. Reboulet arrived at 

 Southampton with some giraffes, a pair of addax 

 antelope, and a male leucoryx ; Lord Derby wished 

 to purchase the addax and leucoryx, and sent the 

 head keeper down with the price (^100) agreed for 

 them without the giraffes. The Frenchman, however, 

 wishing to sell all his animals in one lot, delayed 

 under various pretexts, until he eventually sold them 

 all to Mr. Cross of the Surrey Zoological Gardens. 



