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procure living animals for his private Menagerie, obtained specimens of the 
Korrigum from the vicinity of Macarthy’s Island on the River Gambia, and 
brought them safely to Knowsley. Here they seem to have thriven and 
reproduced their kind, for on reference to the ‘Gleanings’ (published in 
1850) there will be found a beautiful coloured figure by Waterhouse Hawkins 
of a mother and young of this Antelope drawn from life. It is a great 
misfortune that so few records were ever kept or, at all events, ever published 
of the many fine and rare animals living in this splendid collection. In the 
Derby Museum, now at Liverpool, are two mounted specimens of this 
Antelope—we believe the only perfect examples in this country. They are, 
no doubt, individuals formerly living in the Knowsley Menagerie. 
Herr Matschie is inclined to believe that certain specimens of a 
Damaliscus recently obtained by German collectors on the north and west 
of Lake Victoria should be referred to the present species, and not to 
D. jimela. This, if correct, would indicate a much greater extension of 
the area of the Korrigum towards the east than we should consider to be 
probable, and further evidence on the subject is much wanted. 
Besides the skulls of both sexes obtained in Bornou by Denham and 
Clapperton, there are other skulls of this species in the National Collection, 
procured by Whitfield on the Gambia, and, more recently, in the same 
district by Dr. Percy Rendall. We much regret that we have no further 
details to offer upon this fine and interesting Antelope, of the life-history of 
which, as is the case with most of the West-African Antelopes, we know 
exceedingly little. The figure of this species (Plate VII.) was put upon the 
stone by Mr. Smit from a drawing by Mr. Wolf, probably taken from the 
specimens at Liverpool; but upon this point we are not quite certain. 
January, 1895. 
