ANIMALS AT KHARTOUM. 
By Caprain 8. 5S. FLOWER. 
Illustrated with Photographs by the Author. 
fee Zoological Gardens at Khartoum, though one of the youngest and smallest of 
these institutions in the world, is well worth a visit. 
The collection of animals, 
though necessarily limited from reasons of finance, is very interesting, the specimens 
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BUCK RIL OR ADDRA GAZELLE. 
being all from the Sudan, 
and the locality where each 
was caught being known 
in nearly every case. The 
collection is the property 
of the Anglo- Sudanese 
Government, and is looked 
after by Mr. A. Li. Butler, 
the Director of the Sudan 
Game Preservation Depart- 
ment. On the Ist Feb- 
ruary, 1904, there were 
living in the Khartoum 
collection two lions, two 
leopards, one serval, one 
caracal, one chita, five ril, 
one Dorcas and one Korin 
gazelle, one white oryx, one 
Wau ram, several giraffes, 
two ostriches, one secretary 
bird, one spur-winged goose 
and several crowned cranes, 
ultramarine- and fire- 
finches, weaver-birds, etc., 
also some animals on 
deposit belonging to the 
Egyptian Zoological Gar- 
dens, which have since been 
moved to Giza. There is 
also at Khartoum a Shoebill 
(Baleniceps rex), but it is 
kept at the Governor- 
General’s palace, and not 
in the public gardens, being 
rightly much valued by its 
fortunate possessors. 
The Ril or Addra Gazelle 
(Gazella ‘ruficollis) is a 
species very seldom seen 
alive im menageries, and 
till the re-opening of the 
