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indebted to Colonel MacMahon, Governor of Kordofan, were 

 brought home by Mr. Thomson. 



No very remarkable new mammal came to the Gardens 

 in 1903, but among the rarer species were a pair of Grevy's 

 zebras, presented by Lieut-Colonel Sir John Harrington, and 

 a fine male chimpanzee from the Albert Nyanza, the first 

 example received i'rom Eastern Africa. Among the birds were 

 the winking owl, the whistling swan, the Alaska goose, Ross's 

 snow goose, the Masai ostrich, the American golden plover 

 (captured at sea), and Scoresby's gull. 



Jingo, the great African elephant, was sold to Bostock in 

 February, 1903. In the previous year it had shown signs of 

 temper, and consequently did no carrying, but was kept in its 

 stall, as was SufFa CuUi for a similar reason. There appears 

 to have been some attempt to create public excitement, but the 

 matter fell flat. The price was said to have "run into four figures" 

 — as a matter of fact, it was only £200. Jingo was taken by train 

 to Liverpool, shipped on board the Georgic, and died at sea. 



As there was not the danger with Jingo that existed with 

 Jumbo, it is to be regretted that he was sold. Although in bad 

 condition, he was still a fine elephant, with a good pair of 

 tusks, and might well have been retained as making a good 

 show in the house. 



Schweinfurth's chimpanzee from the Bagamo Forest, Uganda, 

 was first received in 1904, a pair having been presented by 

 Mr. Stanley C. Tomkins; the male is probably the largest yet 

 exhibited in the Gardens. Among other new species were 

 Pousargue's, Du Chaillu's, Wolf's and Schmidt's guenons, the 

 dwarf buffalo from Senegal, the ferret badger, two Turkestan 

 wapiti stags presented by the President, and the antelope and 

 Alligator River kangaroos. An example of Buffon's kob was 

 received in June, and reported in the Proceedings (1904, ii. 

 177), as new to the collection. If, however, early literature 

 is to be trusted, one was living in the Gardens in the 'thirties. 



The specimen from which the accompanying figure * was taken was 

 presented to the Society by John Foster, Esq., where [i.e. in the Garden] 

 it lived for about three years. It was of a very savage disposition, having 

 during its confinement worn its horns down to within two inches of its 



♦ Loui8 Fraser : "Zoologia Typica," pp. 48-49, pi. xx (London, 1849). 



