NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



43 



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. 



The Small Deer. 



Osceola White-Tailed Deer, {Odocoilcus 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- 



