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the consequent dispersal of that collection, some six or seven years afterwards, 
that he succeeded in acquiring a male. Owing to the age of the female 
at that time, although she bred twice with the male she failed to rear 
her offspring, and died in 1846, being then, as Lord Derby believed, the 
Fig. 93. 
Young Leucoryx. 
(From ‘ Zoological Sketches.’) 
only female of this species in England. When the Derby Menagerie was 
dispersed in August 1851, the pair of Leucoryx Antelopes were among the 
animals selected by the Zoological Society of London, in virtue of Lord Derby’s 
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