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inhabiting West Africa; and, as is so often 
the case with West African animals, little is 
known about them. 
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THE Sumatran Civet (Viverra tangalunga) is 
an example of 
the heavily- 
built ground- 
living civets of which the 
African Civet-Cat (Viverra 
civetta) is the type. The 
former has a wide range in 
the islands of the Hastern 
Archipelago, but its emigva- 
tion in some cases may have 
been ‘“‘ assisted,” as 1t 1s one 
of the species which are 
kept caged for their scented 
secretion, and so commonly 
carried about from place to 
place by the Malays. As 
an example of the curious 
way in which captive 
animnals turn up in out-of- 
Sumatran 
Civet. 
NAGOR ANTELOPE. 
Animal Life 
Tur Nagor Antelope of West Africa (Cervi- 
capra vredunca), although de- 
Nagor aha <TD) fae : venga 
Antelope. SCttbed by Buffon so long ago 
as 1764, remained little known 
for many years subsequently, especially in 
captivity. The London 
Gardens did not receive a 
specimen till 1890, this 
having been presented by 
Dr. Perey Randall. That 
specimen, however, 1s now 
dead, and another is depicted 
in the photograph. 
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As a contrast to the rare 
Nagor we may 
take the Dorcas 
Gazelle (Gazella 
dorcas), which is on the 
whole the most familiar of 
all antelopes, having been 
known even to some ancient 
Greek writers, such as 
AWlian, who used the same 
Dorcas 
Gazelle. 
DORCAS GAZELLE. 
Photographs by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S. 
the-way places, the case may be mentioned 
of a white variety (not a true albino, for 
its eyes were dark) of one of the T'ree-Civets 
(Paradoxurus) in the Caleutta Zoological 
Garden which had been brought from Fiji, 
of all places, by a Turkish trader in sham 
jewellery ! 
name, ‘ dorcas,” as was subsequently given to 
it by Linneeus. This animal is also the “roe” 
so frequently mentioned in scripture; and it 
is still, according to Canon Tristram, far the 
commonest large game animal in Palestine; 
that well-known naturalist has even. seen a 
small troop feeding on the Mount of Olives, close 
