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of English-bred animals, which only terminated on the death of 

 the last of them in 1894. One of the first of this series is 

 figured in Sir Cornwallis Harris's work on the game of South 

 Africa, so that those of us who remember the last survivors of 

 this large family will realise that the London Giraffes constituted 

 a link between the present day and the reign of William IV., 

 since Harris set out on the shooting tour which eventually 

 furnished material for his book as long ago as 1836. It may not 

 perhaps be generally known that the Northern Giraffe has 

 repeatedly bred in the Antwerp Zoological Gardens, births 

 having occurred in 1871, 1873, 1875, 1876, and 1878. The last 

 survivor of this fine series is still living, and carries her twenty- 

 three years with the elasticity of youth. The young pair of 

 Giraffes recently sent to Antwerp from the Soudan are much 

 darker in coat than this European-bred female. The third horn 

 of the eighteen-month-old male is about one inch long ; the 

 horns of the young female bear well-developed tufts of drooping 

 hair not seen in either of the other two animals. 



Equus zebra (Mountain Zebra). — -The voice of this animal is 

 a curious whistling metallic neigh. Young foals of this species 

 are much rougher in coat than their parents, and the stripes are 

 brownish rather than black ; a Mountain Zebra foal in the Jardin 

 des Plantes collection, at about ten months old, was still quite 

 rough in coat. The stripes on the neck, mane, and legs were 

 black, and those on the body were nearly all brown. The 

 mother was very suspicious of all visitors, and continually 

 endeavoured to interpose herself between her young one and 

 any spectators, although the foal was already nearly as big as 

 herself. 



E. burchelli (Burchell's Zebra). — Most naturalists will be 

 aware that the original type of this animal as described by Burchell 

 had the legs unstriped, or at most with but few markings. The 

 practical extermination of this form, however, has unfortunately 

 now been compassed, so that almost all the Zebras of this species 

 now in zoological gardens have the legs regularly banded, often 

 right down to the hoofs. Occasionally, however, one meets with 

 the rarer form, of which I have examined a specimen. As was 

 seen from the rough coat, this animal was quite young. A 

 remarkable point was that the animal stated to be its mother had 



