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this celebrated herd, but from some notes published by Lord Derby in the 
first volume of the ‘ Gleanings,’ we learn that the first specimens received 
were obtained for him by Mr. Burke from the Cape in November 1542, and 
consisted of two males and a female. ‘The female first bred in August 1843, 
and produced young in 1844, 1845, and 1846, at which date Lord Derby 
remarked that he had in his possession four males and two females of this 
Antelope. At the dispersal of the Derby Menagerie by auction in October 
1851 the Knowsley herd consisted of two males and three females. These 
passed into the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, having been 
selected out of the whole stock by the Council of the Society in virtue of a 
bequest by Lord Derby to that Society of any group of animals in his 
collection that they might prefer. 
The original stock of the Zoological Society’s herd of Elands consisted, 
therefore, of these five animals received by the Society in December 1851. 
Of these an old female had been born at Knowsley in 1846, and the other 
individuals, two males and two females, had been imported by Lord Derby in 
1850. ‘These animals throve well in their new quarters and began to increase 
rapidly. As will be seen by the list given in Wolf and Sclater’s ‘ Zoological 
Sketches ’ (vol. 1.), two calves were born in 1855, three in 1854, four in 1855, 
and four in 1856. The first additions made to the original stock were a 
female presented by the late Sir George Grey in April 1859, and a male 
received in exchange from Viscount Hill in November of the same year. 
Since the date of its first institution the Zoological Society’s herd of Elands 
has never failed, although occasionally reduced to somewhat small dimensions. 
Nearly every year one or more Eland-calves have been born in the Gardens, 
and care has been taken to lose no opportunity of introducing fresh blood 
whenever the occasion has offered. At the present moment, however, we regret 
to say, in consequence of the great difficulties now prevailing in obtaining 
living examples of the larger Antelopes of Africa, the Kiand is represented 
in the Society’s Antelope-House by only two specimens, namely, a male, about 
six years old, bred in the Jardin d’Acclimatation of Paris, and received on 
October 12, 1898, and a young female, purchased of Herr Reiche, of Alfeld, in 
April 1899. The latter is more rufous in colouring and shows slight traces 
of stripes, which, however, she may probably lose when quite adult. 
From these two specimens our illustration of Taurotragus oryx typicus 
(Plate XCVIITI.) has been prepared by Mr. Smit. 
