Zoo Notes 
to the city of Jerusalem. Canon Tristram also 
mentions a very pretty sight he once enjoyed: 
“When ensconced out of sight in a storax 
bush, I watched a pair of gazelles with their 
Id, which the dam was suckling. Ever and 
anon both the soft-eyed parents would gambol 
with it as though fawns themselves.” It 
seems a shame to hunt such beautiful and 
innocent creatures, especially when, as is 
often the custom with the Bedouin, both hawk 
and hound are pitted against the poor gazelle. 
Were it attacked only by the latter, it could 
hardly complain of the odds, for its speed is 
often too much even for the greyhound; but 
when confused by the attacks of the falcon, 
which of course more easily overhauls it, and 
then dashes at its face, it naturally is almost 
certain to fall a victim unless fortune has 
favoured it with an unusually long start. The 
tastes of the ‘‘ children of the desert ” evidently 
need educating in the matter of what con- 
stitutes fair sport. we 
RUPPELL’S VULTURE, 
Ruppell’s Vulture. 
which is shown in 
two 
positions, is in 
Photograph by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S. 
RUPPELL'S VULTURE. 
form a 
typical re- 
presenta- 
tive of the 
“Goose- 
Vultures,” 
as the 
Germans 
call those 
the 
e@enus 
Gyps, DO 
doubt on 
account of 
their 
markably 
of 
EE= 
long necks; 
English 
ormitholo- 
cists know 
them as 
“Griffon 
Vultures.” 
recognisable 
Dando, 1.27.8. 
Photo by W. P. 
RUPPELL’S VULTURD. 
The present species is easily 
by its plumage, which is 
unusually diversified by  con- 
spicuous pale edges to the feathers 
—most vultures, and griffons in 
particular, bemg very dull and 
uniform, not to say shabby, in 
colouring. 
Riippell’s Vulture is an African 
species, and has a wide range, 
being found both in the north- 
east and southern portions of the 
continent, and extending to 
Ovampoland on the west coast. 
Dy 
THE photograph of the Iguana 
(Iguana tuberculata) 
gives an excellent 
idea of this reptile, 
which, though often said to be 
repulsive in appearance, 1s really 
Iguana. 
extremely picturesque, its spiny 
erest and heavy dewlap giving 
it a most dignified appearance in 
conjunction with its large size; 
for this iguana 1s of the 
largest of existing lizards, attain- 
ing a length of two yards, with 
one 
