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living in the Menagerie at Exeter Change. Colonel Hamilton Smith, being 
uncertain whether this was the true “ Kob” of Buffon, gave it a new name, 
adenota, derived from the small gland situated on its back (adm, glandula, 
and vwroc, dorsum). There can be no doubt, however, that Hamilton Smith’s 
description of his Antilope adenota, which is accompanied by a very fair 
figure of the male, refers to Buffon’s Kob. Another name bestowed upon 
this Antelope by Hamilton Smith, in the same work, was Antilope forfex, 
based on Pennant’s ‘‘ Gambian Antelope.” 
The first specimen of the Kob Antelope that reached Europe alive, so far 
as we know, was that presented to the Zoological Society of London by 
Mr. John Foster in 1836, which was subsequently figured in Fraser’s 
‘Zoologia Typica’ (plate xx.). Fraser tells us that it lived about three 
years in the Society’s Gardens. This is no doubt the specimen that is 
referred to by Ogilby as the “‘ Kob of Buffon” in his remarks printed in the 
‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 1836 (page 102). Although 
Ogilby’s references to it are not very comprehensible, this fact is clearly 
established by what Fraser says in his ‘ Zoologia Typica.’ 
Shortly after this period living specimens of this Antelope were obtained 
at the Gambia and brought home for the Knowsley Menagerie by Whitfield, 
Lord Derby’s collector. Upon these animals Gray established his Antilope 
annulipes in 1842, but in the letterpress to the ‘ Gleanings’ Gray admitted 
that they were really referable to the present species. Gray states that a 
fine pair ‘‘ had been at Knowsley for some years,” and adds that they are 
called on the Gambia “ A.quitoon” by the Joliffs and “ Kob”’ by the 
Mandingos. On plates xiv. and xy. of the ‘Gleanings’ good coloured 
figures of the male, female, and young of this species will be found, taken 
from drawings made from life by Waterhouse Hawkins. From this it would 
appear that the Kob, like many other Antelopes, bred in those days at 
Knowsley. 
We cannot ascertain that any living examples of the Kob have been 
received by the Zoological Society subsequently to that obtained in 1836 as 
already mentioned ; but a female, which was formerly living in the Zoological 
Garden of Amsterdam, is now in the gallery of the Leyden Museum, and in 
August 1895 Sclater saw a fine male of this species in the Jardin des Plantes 
at Paris (see P. Z.S. 1895, p. 688) and another male in the private collection 
