NOTES AND 
From Mr. Stephen Cribb, of Southsea, comes 
the photograph reproduced on 
paces this page of an elephant in the 
act of landing after a long sea 
voyage. The animal is the property of the 
Duke of Connaught, to whom it was presented 
by a native prince during his Royal Highness’s 
visit to the Delhi Durbar. It was brought 
over in H.M.S. Renown, and no sooner was it 
landed at Southampton than it was transferred 
to another boat en route for Dublin, where it 
is sure to find true Inish hospitality. 
we" 
Mr. H. C. Brooke 
writes: “I 
Arctic f : 
Animals. W725 much 
interested 
in the account of the 
Aretic White Wolves. 
Tshould be gladif your 
contributor would 
state whether he con- 
siders them a distinct 
variety of the common 
Arctic Wolf, ormerely 
a colour sport. 
“All the white 
wolves (Huropean 
variety) I have seen 
have been smaller 
than the common 
wolf, and I take them 
to be a colour variety 
merely, probably in 
many inbred. 
The one now at the 
Zoo belonging to 
Mr. Rothschild is the 
biggest white wolf I 
ever saw. He was 
from common grey 
parents, and was the 
only white cub in the 
litter. He was bred 
Cases 
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COMMENTS. 
by Biddell Bros., the showmen. The other 
white wolves I have seen and owned have been 
much smaller, and mostly menagerie bred, 
consequently inbred. Many of these have 
been bred by Purchase Bros., also showmen. 
“Tf is interesting to note how the 
Esquimaux dog resembles the Arctic wolf 
in his smaller and more erect ears; you will 
see the Huropean wolf's ears are much larger 
and more sideways set. The best Hsquimaux 
dogs also exhibit the sloping back so marked in 
the Arctic wolf, though not to such a degree. 
“here is a very 
fine pair of Arctic 
wolves (greys) now 
at the Zoo, tame as 
dogs. They have had 
cubs, of which I was 
mostanxious tosecure 
one, but they have all 
gone nearly paralysed 
in the hind-quarters. 
“T have at last 
some Hsquimaux 
»yups out of the bitch 
whose photograph 
you gave—absolutely 
the last chance of 
breeding any in this 
country as things are 
at present, she being 
the only bitch im the 
country, and the dogs 
being eleven and 
fourteen years old 
respectively. I am 
more than pleased. 
My old Tibet dog is 
dead; he was about 
fourteen years old.” 
We hope to insert 
Mr. Madsen’s reply 
in our next or an 
early number. 
