152 NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



The first bubaline hartebeest seen alive in Europe 

 was probably the specimen kept for some time in the 

 Royal menagerie at Versailles and mentioned by 

 FredeVic Cuvier in his work ' La Menagerie du 

 Museum." Afterwards transported to the collection 

 at the Jardin des Plantes, it unfortunately received 

 severe injuries en route, and died soon after reaching 

 its destination. The first bubal in England was 

 exhibited in the London Zoological Gardens in 1832 ; 

 others have since been received, and at the time of 

 writing a female specimen has just been added to 

 Regent's Park collection after a hiatus of several 

 years. The bubal bred in Lord Derby's menagerie 

 at Knowsley Hall. 



A fine herd of eight bubal (including several 

 born in the collection) was studied by the writer 

 some years ago in the Jardin des Plantes ; the 

 original members of the herd had been presented 

 by M. de St. Julien, Commandant Superieur 

 at Lalla Marnia, in the province of Oran in 

 Algeria. The writer took a number of photographs 

 of this quaint party ; the most interesting one 

 represented a young bubal and its parents, and 

 showed how the scraggy outlines of the little animal 

 lying on the ground counterfeited the angles of a 

 piece of rock. In the wild state, unfortunately, this 

 interesting antelope is but little known to Europeans; 

 apparently extinct in Egypt, it wanders in small 

 troops in the mountains of the Sahara 



