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Gardens, but since that date many other examples have been received, and 
the species has frequently bred in the Menagerie. On referring to the 
Society’s registers we find that this has taken place in 1856, 1864, 1866, 
1868, and 1869. As a general rule, two young ones are produced at the 
same birth; but the young animals, although they thrive well, are excessively 
shy and timid, as is also the case with many others of the Deer and 
Antelopes, so that, if frightened, they frequently injure themselves by 
rushing against the fences of their paddocks. 
Our coloured illustration of the Nilgai (Plate LXXXVII.) has been 
prepared from specimens of both sexes of this animal now living in the 
Zoological Society's Gardens, where they were received in exchange on 
October 14th, 1896. 
There is a good mounted example of the male Nilgai in the British Museum, 
obtained from the Zoological Society's Gardens in 1896, besides two other 
older mounted specimens kept in store. ‘There are also specimens of heads 
of this animal from the Khalcote jungle south of Mhow, presented by Col. J. 
Evans, and from Jullunder near Sangor, presented by Mr. G. A. Carmichael, 
and some skulls and horns from Oude and the North-west Provinces, 
presented by Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B. From the last of these the drawings 
of the skull and horns and frontlet of an adult male (figs. 98 and 99) have 
been prepared. 
November, 1899. 
