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WATER BIRDS IN THE FLYING CAGE. 

 Brown Pelicans, White Pelicans, and Flamingoes. 



exterminated by the natives ; but this cannot 

 possibly be more than a mere surmise. 



According to the skin and skulls sent to the 

 British Museum, the animal is allied to the 

 giraffe, but its neck is no longer in proportion 

 to its body than that of a horse. It is a cloven- 

 hoofed ruminant, of large size, slightly higher 

 at the withers than at the hind quarters, with 

 a head rather large in proportion to its body. 

 It has no horns, but three rounded bumps on 

 the skull seem to indicate that the ancestors 

 of the present animal once possessed horn cores 

 similar to those of the giraffe. 



Apparently the okapi is one of the most 

 brilliantly colored animals alive at the present 

 day, and among the ungulates its color-scheme 

 must be quite unrivalled. 



The cheeks are yellowish white, the muzzle 

 blackish brown, the forehead " a most vivid 

 red," and the ass-like ears are of a deep reddish 

 brown, with silky black fringes. The neck and 

 body are a deep reddish brown, which in parts 

 has almost a crimson tinge, and in others be- 

 comes blackish. The hind quarters and hind 

 legs down to the hocks, and the front legs 



from the elbow to the wrist joint, are boldly 

 striped in purplish black and white. From the 

 hocks downward, the hind legs are of a creamy 

 color, and so are the lower extremities of the 

 front legs, except that a bold black line runs 

 down the front in an oblique manner. The 

 fetlocks are black and cream color, and the tail 

 is of a bright reddish-brown color, with a 

 black tuft at the end. 



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