. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. HE KING. labelled Born in the Menagerie. ColonelMahon has given the female the Arabianname of Fatima, which seems mostappropriate, as a more typical personifica-tion of female curiosity it would be difficultto find among the female animals at theZoo; and it was no doubt from observa-tions of a^ similar nature that induced theColonel to name this beautiful specimenafter Bluebeards seventh wife. The malehe has named Selim, after one of theSultans of Turkey, anticipating many wivesfor this choice beast. the giraffe trouble (for
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. HE KING. labelled Born in the Menagerie. ColonelMahon has given the female the Arabianname of Fatima, which seems mostappropriate, as a more typical personifica-tion of female curiosity it would be difficultto find among the female animals at theZoo; and it was no doubt from observa-tions of a^ similar nature that induced theColonel to name this beautiful specimenafter Bluebeards seventh wife. The malehe has named Selim, after one of theSultans of Turkey, anticipating many wivesfor this choice beast. the giraffe trouble (fortunately solved) appliesequally to these beautiful animals. Thelargest specimen, which was presented tothe late Queen Victoria by Emperor Menelik,is about eight years old and is a very fineshaped mare, and the other two will,no doubt, make equally graceful markings on each of the animalsare dissimilar so far as design is con-cerned, and although each have their pointsof beauty, it is generally admitted thelate Queens animal is the most NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Chestnut-bellied Scaled Partridge is afavourite game bird in the Partridge, region where it is found (NoilhEastern Mexico and Lower EioGrande Valley in Texas). These birds raise two broods to the season,and fifteen seems to be the average numberof eggs they lay. The nest is simply aslight hollow scratched out in the sand,commonly under a clump of grass or closeto a prickly pear bush. These birds areoften found miles away from water, and inthe most arid districts imaginable. Theyare very difficult to flush, and often- eludethe sportsman by their rapidly runningover the ground through the scanty vegetation without taking flight. To some extent theirsombre plumage also protects them, simi-lating as it does the colour of the groundmost frequently chosen for their as many as thirty or forty birdsoccur in a single bevy, in rare instancesas many an hundred or more. As in thecase of
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