YOUNG BRINDLBl) GNU. 317 



" By the 13th December (that is, when the calf was twelve days 

 old), the whole of the upper side of the body was a light fawn (the 

 original 'puppy coat' having been shed) ; the legs were gradually 

 colouring, or less pure, or conspicuously white, than at first ; and 

 the colour was extending from above downwai'ds. The white on 

 the tail was already nearly gone. Face dark ; nose and muzzle, 

 as before, black ; cheeks quite light, the dark ring remaining 

 round the eyes. The coloration of the exterior of the ears as 

 before. 



" In Smit's plate the fawn of the body is darker, and more 

 mixed with black-tipped hairs, and the drawing was evidently 

 made at a greater age* than the present example attained i;o, 

 not only for the reason just stated, but because the tail-tuft is of 

 a brighter black, the dark circle round the eyes is shown as the 

 faintest possible shadow, and the general figure of the animal 

 is more set ; but the most important discrepancy — which seems 

 only explicable on the supposition that the present example be- 

 longed to a local race widely difiering from the two calves previously 

 figured, — is that both plates show quite a smooth cheek, whereas 

 the present example, like her father (and I feel sure the mother 

 was the same), had a perfect and veiy conspicuous ' Newgate 

 fringe,' consisting of a woolly moustache, like a poodle's, but 

 situated about halfway along the gape, and quite distinct from 

 the moustachial bristles on the muzzle, meeting bushy whiskers 

 on the cheeks, and continued as a long thick beard on the chin ; 

 the whole cheek was hirsute, or covered with long hairs projecting 

 in a more or less upward direction. 



" By the 16th the horns were appearing through the skin, and 

 she had cut some molar teeth, which we could hear her grinding, 

 so we tied up a wisp of hay, and she very soon learnt that it was 

 good to eat. The tail now much resembled that of the Grey 

 Squirrels so familiar in the Pai-k, with the addition of a black tuft. 



"By the 27th the dark ring below the eyes was fading 

 away. 



"On the 14th Januai-y the horns were about an inch long ; and 

 on the lower surface of the chin, between lip and Newgate 

 fringe, but hardly extending to the side face, was a white patch, 

 which I had not previously noticed. 



"On the 15th the calf appeared as vigorous and in as perfect 

 health as ever, bxat on the morning of the 16th she lay prostrate, 

 and in a very short time was dead ; the cause, as decided by 

 Mr. Plimmer, the Society's pathologist, being broncho-pneumonia. 



"The Gn\i wns photographed, by myself, on December 13, on 

 December 31 and January 2, by Press photographers, and on 

 January 7, by request of Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, by a Henley 

 photogi'apher ; the series to some extent shows the growth. 



* No hint is given (loe. cit.) as to the age of the calf when drawn, but it was born 

 en July 14, and the drawing exhibited on November 20. 



