ZOOLOGY. 



The singularity of the Kanguroo and its numerous 

 species, arises from the extreme shortness of the fore 

 legs and length of the hinder ones. In the present 

 animal, this system is reversed, the fore legs appearing 

 by much the longest. The Camelopard is a perfectly 

 harmless animal, and subsists in the middle and south- 

 ern parts of Africa, by grazing, and also by feeding on 

 the young branches of the trees, for which his long neck 

 is admirably calculated. He is supposed to be quite 

 incapable of domiciliation and his great size would render 

 him probably a most inconvenient animal even if tamed. 

 The present delineation was taken from a fine and noble 

 specimen preserved in Mr. Bullock's Museum, and which 

 was shot by an English Gentleman near the Cape of Good 

 Hope. It is found to be the largest specimen ever brought 

 to England, being seventeen feet in height ; but no descrip- 

 tion whatever can impart the idea of vastness, which the 

 sight of the animal itself must always inspire in the spec- 

 tator. He traverses his native plains, when alive, in herds 

 of twenty or thirty together, and when grazing is said 

 to bring his head very low between his fore legs in a 

 striding posture. When pursued by dogs or men, of 

 both of which he is much afraid, he commences a brisk 

 ambling trot, and which is afterwards increased in velo- 

 city, leaving his pursuers far behind. The Camelopard 

 however, though now very scarce, was well known to the 

 ancient Romans, having been frequently exhibited by them 

 in their Circus and publick games, for the gratification 

 of the populace, who delighted much in these kind of 

 exhibitions. 



Many various observations have been made by differ- 

 ent naturalists, respecting the comparative anatomy of 

 the Camelopard, and it has been observed by Vaillant, 

 that the same protuberance occurs in this animal, which 



