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time in Paris, was employed to execute a water-colour drawing of these 
Antelopes, which was subsequently published in the Zoological Society’s 
‘Proceedings’ along with further notes on the same subject. M. Milne- 
Edwards informed Mr. Sclater that the female of the pair had been 
received from the Jardin d’Acclimatation in March 1876, and the male in 
November 1879, and that both were believed to have come from Gaboon. 
The female had brought forth her young one on December 4th, 1880, 
after a period of gestation of 7 months and 24 days. A young male 
had likewise been born of the same mother in December 1881, but had not 
lived long. 
Besides those of Paris, several other Gardens in continental Europe have 
of late years obtained specimens of Limnotragus gratus, which, singularly 
enough, when we consider its habits in a state of nature, appears to thrive in 
captivity and to breed with facility. ‘There are at present small herds of this 
species in the Zoological Gardens of Hamburg and Amsterdam. Dr. Kerbert, 
the Director of the last-named Garden, has kindly sent us for this work a list 
of the nine individuals bred in that establishment from 1891 to 1896, which is 
here subjoined :— 
Female covered.| Young born, Sex. scenes 
days. 
Ie 18.4.91 26.12.91 3 252 
2. 31.7.91 28.3.92 3 240 
3. 26.5.92 5.2.93 fo) 255 \ 
4, 3.7.92 17.3.93 3 257 
5. 21.6.93 4.3.94 3 256 
6. 22.6.93 7.3.94 3 258 
de 9.7.94 15.3.95 3 249 
8. 30.8.94 6.5.95 Q 249 
9. 25.5.95 24,1.96 2 245 
Dr. Kerbert observes that the colour of the young males and females when 
born is exactly like that of the mother, but that the sexes are easily 
distinguishable by the white hairs in the middle of the black stripe over the 
back in the males. 
