Nagor Reedbuck 313 



base of the ear, white in colour. The tail is short, bushy, and fawn-coloured 

 above, white beneath. A young animal that I reared on the Island of 

 St. Mary, at Bathurst, was caught in the upper reaches of the Gambia 

 River by a native. After four months on milk from a feeding-bottle, I 

 weaned it to dried ground-nut grass {Arachis hypogaa). 



For the first six months the tear-glands were a marked feature on its 

 face, and it was quite white on the chest and under parts. As it grew older, 

 however, the tear-glands were hidden ; it then became darker, and its coat 

 grew twice as long as before, the white of the under parts deepening into 

 a light mouse-brown. The horns were cut at six months old, and altered 

 their direction several times before the animal entered the gardens of the 

 Zoological Society of London in June 1890. This antelope is still alive 

 and in perfect health. The horns are thick in proportion to the size of 

 the animal, 5 inches in circumference at the base, and about 9 inches 

 long. The terminal portion is strongly inclined forwards. 



The Nagor inhabits West Africa north of the forest region. The type 

 specimen vaguely described by Buffon is said to have been got from the 

 arid and pestilential rock known as Goree, doubtless brought thither from 

 some of the reed-beds of the mainland. Whitfield brought home this 

 animal to the Knowsley Menagerie, when collecting for the late Lord 

 Derby in the Gambia. Paris has two mounted males from Senegal, and 

 there is another at Frankfort-on-the-Main. The specimen I reared became 

 extremely tame, would follow me about like a dog, and eat out of my 

 hand ; it was very fond of the flat, curled seed-pods of a mimosa tree, 

 with yellow tasselled blooms, which grew in my compound. 



Percy Rendall. 



