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THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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and South Africa, and the Morse or Walrus from the Arctic Ocean. 
In the Case between the columns are specimens of the full-grown 
male Gorilla, of the female, and of a young male. They are from the 
Gaboon, Equatorial Africa. Over the Cases containing the Antelopes 
and Bats are placed the horns of the different species of Oxen, the 
largest of which are those of the Arnee, or Great Indian Buffalo. 
Cases 1-6 and 14-20. The Antelopes are beasts with hollow 
horns, chewing the cud ; they are chiefly of a sandy colour, and 
specially fitted to inhabit extensive plains with tracts of desert ; a few 
of the species live among rocks, where they are as sure-footed as the 
Goat. They are most abundant in Africa, especially in the southern 
districts. A few are found in India. Among the more interesting- 
species may be pointed out the Water-buck, and Sable Antelope ; the 
Oryx, which, when seen in profile, probably suggested the Unicorn 
mentioned by the ancients ; the Blessbok, Hartebeest, and Sassaybe of 
South Africa ; the large-eyed Gazelle, so often referred to by Eastern 
poets ; the Springbok, so called from its springing bounds, when the 
white fur of its back opens out like a sheet ; the Gnu, which at first 
seems a compound of Horse, Buffalo, and Antelope ; the Sasing, or 
Indian Antelope, with its curious cheek-pores ; the Wood Antelopes^ 
with short horns often concealed amongst a brush of hairs ; the 
Chickara of India, with four little horns. (Case 12.) North America 
and Europe have each a single species, viz., the Prong-buck of the 
United States, and the Chamois which frequents the Alps. None of 
these hollow-horned animals shed their horns, except the Prong-buck, 
in which, periodically, a new pair of horns, covered with- hairs, are 
formed below and within the old one. 
The different kinds of Wild Sheep (Cases 9 to 11) from the moun- 
tains of Asia, North America, and North Africa: one of the most 
remarkable is the Bearded Sheep, or Aoudad of Morocco, which has- 
enormous strength in its neck and horns ; these are of great size io 
the gigantic Argali. 
The various kinds of Ibex and Wild Goats of Siberia, India, and 
Europe, and some of their domestic varieties (Cases 6 to 8 and 13) ; 
the Cashmere and Angora Goats, celebrated for the delicate wool 
growing among their hair, and manufactured into the finest shawls. 
The Giraffes are fitted, by their long legs and neck, and extensile 
lips and tongue, to browse on the twigs of high trees; while the Ante- 
lopes, Goats, and Sheep, with their short neck and blunt lips, browse 
chiefly on low shrubs, or graze. 
The Bats, which have the skin extended between the fingers of 
their fore-limbs, fly about in the dusk and at night; they feed chiefly 
upon insects ; some of the larger species, often called Fox-bats, or 
Flying Foxes, have blunt grinding teeth, and eat fruit only. They 
are found in Africa, in the islands of the Indian Archipelago and the 
Pacific, and in Australia, where some of them live in large flocks. 
The Jlorse-shoe Bats and Leaf-nosed Bats have very peculiar physio- 
gnomies, from the complicated apparatus on the skin of the nose round 
the nostrils. Though the Bats are generally sombre-coloured, yet 
