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APPENDIX II. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



(1) The chamois being spoken of throughout 

 this book as an antelope, it is just worth noticing, 

 especially in connection with page 234, that it 

 belongs to the group of goat-like antelopes, which 

 is made up (in the Old World) by the serow and 

 gooral of the Himalaya, by three (? one) species 

 allied to the first, and by three cemas from Thibet 

 and Amurland, practically unknown to Euro- 

 peans. The experiment of hybridizing chamois 

 and goats would be most interesting, but is not 

 likely to be tried in England, as there are no 

 chamois in the " Zoo." For this information I 

 am indebted to the artist whose drawings so 

 greatly enhance the interest of this book. Strange 

 to say, when illustrating "Gun, Bine, and Hound" 

 two years ago, he was confronted with a similar 

 difficulty — there were no roe-deer. This, I think, 

 should not be the case. However unjustly, we 

 have got to look upon the Zoological Society's 

 collection as a national thing ; and therefore the 



