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buck employed in this manceuvre should be a brown one, as if an old powerful-looking 
black one is used the wild buck will often decline the contest.” 
The Indian Antelope bears captivity easily, and specimens of it are to be 
seen in all the Zoological Gardens of Europe, in some of which it has bred 
and multiplied very successfully. In other places it has not done so well, 
apparently requiring a light soil and a considerable amount of protection 
from the inclemencies of a northern climate. 
In the celebrated Menagerie at Knowsley fifty years ago this Antelope is 
stated by Gray to have bred but once at the time he was writing of it (1846). 
But shortly afterwards the herd of this animal in Lord Derby’s possession 
appears to have increased very rapidly. When the Menagerie was dispersed 
by auction after the Earl’s death in 1851 we find that four males and four 
females of this Antelope were entered in the sale-list, all described as having 
been bred at Knowsley. These passed into the possession of the late 
Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone, who at that epoch shared Lord Derby’s tastes 
in his love for keeping living animals. 
So far as we can tell from an inspection of the Zoological Society's records, 
the first specimens of the Black-buck received by the Society were brought 
home by Col. Sykes (a well-known authority on Indian zoology) from Bombay 
in 1831. In the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society for 1836 Mr. EK. T. Bennett, 
then Secretary of the Society, published some interesting remarks on this 
herd, especially referring to the vexed question of the use of the lachrymal 
sinus in Antelopes, which, from consideration of the relative development of 
it in the several specimens then in the Society's Gardens, he showed was in 
all probability subservient to sexual purposes. 
As will be seen by reference to the nine published editions of the ‘ Lists of 
Animals in the Society’s Collection,’ numerous specimens of the Black-buck 
have been acquired by the Society since that date, but, probably on account 
of the small free space assigned to them, little or no success has been met 
with in breeding this beautiful species in the Regent’s Park. On the other 
hand, at the Jardin d’Acclimatation at Paris and in other places under a 
climate more genial than our own, where large paddocks can be assigned 
to it, the Black-buck frequently reproduces in captivity and flourishes 
exceedingly. 
No figures of the Black-buck having been drawn under the late Sir Victor 
Brooke's directions, our illustrations of this beautiful Antelope (Plate XLVII.) 
