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‘Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes,’ from specimens living in the Jardin 
des Plantes. In 1845, as we learn from Gray, the Nilgai bred in the 
Knowsley Menagerie, and there was at that time a herd of a male and four 
females kept in one of the paddocks along with the Elands. In 1847 the 
half-grown male and young were drawn from some of these specimens by 
Waterhouse Hawkins, and the figures were published in the twenty-ninth 
plate of the ‘Gleanings.’ The Nilgai has been an inhabitant of the Zoological 
Fig. 99. 
Frontlet of an adult male Nilgai. 
(Brit. Mus.) - 
Seciety's Menagerie from its commencement. In 1830 it was described and 
figured in the first of the two volumes on the ‘Gardens and Menagerie of the 
Zoological Society’ by Vigors and Bennett, and in February 1831, as recorded 
in the ‘ Proceedings,’ a specimen of a young one, born at the Society’s farm 
at Kingston, was exhibited and described at one of the Scientific Meetings. 
This appears to have been the first instance of its breeding in the Society’s 
