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SABLE ANTELOPE. 
cessity, can be partitioned, and formed into two. The in- 
terior compartments are each 10 feet wide by 10 feet deep. 
The building is surrounded by a series of 34 corrals, con- 
necting with the interior compartments, the average size of 
each being 75 feet long by 20 feet wide at the outer end. 
All the fences are of wire, and were specially designed in 
the Park for this installation. 
It is a practical impossibility to offer an enumeration of 
the living animals in this building which will permanently 
apply, and the best that can be attempted is an approxima- 
tion. It is an inexorable law of Nature that the smallest 
animals shall have the shortest periods of life, and in a 
zoological park a small hoofed animal may be here to-day 
and gone to-morrow. In the following enumeration, men- 
tion will be made only of those species which are likely to 
remain longest on exhibition; and it may be observed that 
in this building there will be found various animals which 
are neither deer nor antelopes. 
Tue Smaty Derr. 
Osceola White-Tailed Deer, (Odocoileus virginianus os- 
ceola), is an interesting geographic race of the northern 
White-Tailed Deer which forms the parent stem of a group 
of six or seven subspecies. The robust and hardy northern 
type, often with large and strong antlers, gradually dimin- 
