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Here, then, we have good evidence that elands will do well in this 
country. Let us hope tliat some day they may become so common 
as to be used for ordinary butcher's meat. 
After the elands, I must not omit to mention the smaller of the 
antelopes. I may mention the Leucoryx, the Gnu, the* various kinds 
of gazelles, and several others, many kinds of which I am enabled to 
show this evening through the kindness of ^Ir. Bartlett and Mr, 
Leadbeater. Those who wish to see admirable and spirited pictures 
of the heads and horns of these can do so by referring to Routledge's 
Natural History, by the Kev. J. Wood, parts xiv., xv., xvi, Vol. I. 
Antelopes are delicate things to rear, but yet we find recorded that 
the harnessed antelope “ breeds freely in confinement,’' as will most 
probably the Boschbok. The springbock will also live in our parks, 
and we find a history of them recorded as living in Lord Hill’s park, 
by Mr. Mitchell. 
Among the antelope family, as an ornamental animal nothing can 
excel the eland, except perhaps the Koodoo, which under similar 
treatment might be acclimatised with equal certainty. As an addition 
to our economical resources it appears to be in no way inferior. It 
combines extraordinary quality of flesh with rapid gi'owth, fecundity, 
and hardiness, in which it is not exceeded by our best short horns, 
which on the other hand very often fail to reproduce, through excess 
of fattening property, or from too closely related blood. The great 
difficulty in these antelopes is their liability to cold, but there is no 
reason why with shelter and care an attempt .should not be made to 
keep them. 
I now pass on to the deer tribe, AVe know liow many thousands 
of pounds are annually expended in preserving the deer forests of 
Scotland, and with what resixlt. Compare the comparatively pigmy 
heads which are brought home by our sportsmen with the heads of 
deer that do not live, in these days of steam, an immeasurable 
distance from the deer forests, and are by no moans difficult to procure 
through the proper channels. 
If wo examine an Ordinance map, how many green spots shall we 
observe indicating the parks of nobleman and rich proprietors, many 
admirably suited for deer. Now, out of the deer family, how many 
are there now in England? but three, viz., the red deer, the fallow 
deer, and the roebuck. It may well be asked how many of the deer 
tribe are there on the face of the earth, and why have we so few in 
England ? 
The answer is given by Mr. Mitchell, who writes :—“ Out of 
foHy-irvo species of deer, exclusive of the little moose deer of Tropical 
India, there is hardly one which would not adapt itself to onr seasons.” 
