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attracted the notice of the late Dr. J. E. Gray, of the British Museum, who 
had a capital eye for strange mammals of all sorts. Dr. Gray immediately 
recognized it as belonging to a species unknown to him, and, having 
apparently no suspicion that it was possibly the veritable “ Leucoryx” of the 
older authors, described it as new at a Scientific Meeting of the Zoological 
Society held on June 23rd of that year, at which Sclater (then recently 
elected a member of the Council) well recollects having been himself present, 
and proposed to call it Orya beatrix, after H.R.H. The Princess Beatrice. 
Dr. Gray’s description, published in the ‘ Proceedings,’ is accompanied by an 
excellent coloured figure of the Beatrix Antelope drawn by Wolf. Dr. Gray 
conjectured that the specimen had been brought to Bombay from the shores 
of the Red Sea, but it is more probable that it was carried there from the 
Persian Gulf. The typical specimen, which died shortly afterwards, was 
deposited in the British Museum. 
In March 1872 a second specimen of the Beatrix Antelope was received by 
the Zoological Society, and fortunately with sufficient information to solve 
the enigma as to its real patria. It was the survivor of a pair of these 
animals, obtained for the late Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.Z.S., by Col. Pelly, then 
British Resident at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. In 1878 a third living 
specimen of this Antelope, a male, was received by the Zoological Society ; 
this was presented by Commander F. M. Burke, of the B.I.S.N.S.S. ‘ Arcot,’ 
by whom it bad been obtained at Jeddah in the Red Sea from a friend who 
had received it as a present from the Shereif of Mecca. It was stated to have 
been originally captured in the neighbourhood of Tyeff or Tayf, in the Hedjaz 
Passes, some 150 miles east of the Red Sea. In 1881 two additional 
specimens of the Beatrix Antelope were presented to the same Society by 
the late Lord Lilford, and since that date three other examples of the same 
animal have been received alive by the Zoological Society. ‘These were a 
pair presented by Col. E. C. Ross, C.S.1., H.B.M. Consul at Bushire, in 1890, 
and a single female presented by Lt.-Col. Talbot in 1892. 
The typical specimen of Oryx beatriz, as already mentioned, is in the 
collection of the British Museum, as is also the adult female transmitted to 
the Zoological Society by Col. Pelly. Besides these, the National Collection 
possesses a skeleton of a young female obtained on the Persian Gulf by 
Mr. B. T. ffinch, F.Z.S., and some skins and skulls collected in Muscat by 
Dr. A. S. G. Jayakar, C.M.Z.S. Specimens of the Beatrix Antelope are, 
