Notes and 
this respect they approximate to the Galla 
ox, in which these appendages attain their 
maximum development. 
“Much interest attaches to the presence 
in the Ghiza Gardens of specimens of the 
Whale-Headed Stork (Baleniceps rex), which 
were brought down with some difficulty from 
Khartum, where they inhabit the great 
papyrus brakes of the Nile swamps.. In the 
sixties some of these great birds were hatched 
from eggs at Khartum by Mr. Petherick, 
then British Consul in the Sudan; and some 
of them arrived safely at our own ‘ Zoo.’ 
‘Since their death the only specimens brought 
alive out of the Sudan are those at Ghiza, 
although there is an example lving alone 
at Khartum. A skin of the Shoe-Bill, as 
the species is often called, from Hast Africa, 
was presented some time ago. to the British 
Museum by Si Harry Johnston, and four 
excellent photographs from life of a specimen 
in the Cairo Gardens were reproduced on 
page 159 of this volume. 
“One other feature of the Ghiza ‘ Zoo’ 
must receive brief mention. This is an 
aquarium devoted to the exhibition of as 
many species as possible of the fishes in- 
habiting the Nile system. At the present 
time a very large number of species—including 
the curious enamel-scaled Bichir, with its long 
row of sail-like finlets down the back, and its 
lobate and fringed fins—avre living in the tanks ; 
and as others are obtained, it is hoped that 
much additional information will be gathered 
in regard to the fish-fauna of the Nile.” 
—_ $d. CO 
A FIFTEEN-DAY-OLD INDIAN ELEPHANT, 
Comments 
THE other 
photo- 
graph on 
this pages 
of a young 
elephant 
and its 
mother, 
which has 
been sent 
to us by 
DY Gries ae 
MacAulay- 
Audsley, of 
Calcutta, 
who took 
the picture 
iim tine 
Zoological 
Gardens of 
that city, 
where the 
calf was 
NUBIAN IBEX IN THE GHIZA ‘‘ ZOO.” 
on view, and where it proved a great 
centre of attraction to the 
Sate crowds of people who daily 
went to see it, as no doubt 
the one born in our own Gardens would 
have been had it lived. Mr. MacAulay- 
Audsley writes as follows concerning this 
interesting picture: —‘“ For the past few 
days the Zoological Gardens here have 
displayed the additional attraction of a 
baby elephant. The term ‘baby’ 1s often 
incorrectly applied to hobbledehoy elephants 
aged a few months, or even a few 
years; but this recent visitor to the 
‘City of Palaces’ is absolutely the very 
babiest elephant that most people have 
ever been privileged to see. At the 
time the photograph was taken he was 
only fifteen days old, and bore a most 
bewitching likeness to a full-grown 
elephant viewed through the wrong end 
of an opera glass. The baby was born 
on board a flat* between Assam and 
Calcutta. The hide of the pachyderm 
never presents a youthful appear- 
ance, and this fortnight-old baby was 
* A sort of large flat steamer uscd on the River 
Hoogly for the Assam Service. 
