. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 217 name of Plantaganet, or if he marry an heiress and desire to adopt her family name, or if finally he be created a peer and assume a territorial title, his friends have to put up with the inconvenience caused by the change, and accept the new name. If, however, Eobinson were to discover that he ought to The prevailing colour of the sabre-horned oryx is white, with parts of the face, the whole neck, and portions of the limbs rufous fawn. The general whiteness of the coat is doubtless to harmonise with the "s
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 217 name of Plantaganet, or if he marry an heiress and desire to adopt her family name, or if finally he be created a peer and assume a territorial title, his friends have to put up with the inconvenience caused by the change, and accept the new name. If, however, Eobinson were to discover that he ought to The prevailing colour of the sabre-horned oryx is white, with parts of the face, the whole neck, and portions of the limbs rufous fawn. The general whiteness of the coat is doubtless to harmonise with the "shimmer" of the strong light reflected from the sands of its desert home. Why the rufous tint be called Brown, and that Brown must occurs in the particular parts of the body find a new name, say Black, for himself, mentioned above it is not easy to understand ; all their acquaint- ance would protest against such a change. A precisely analogous "swopping " of names has been proposed in the case of the ante- lope represented in the photograph on page '218 and an allied Arabian species. Almost from time im- memorial the figured species has been known as the White, or Sabre-Horned, Oryx (Ovyxleucoryx), while the Arabian animal has been called 0. beatrix. This, however, say the purists in nomen- clature, will not do, the former name was originally given to the Arabian animal, to which it must be transferred, and the forgotten title 0. algazel revived for the North African species. Common sense says that the latter has acquired a right to the name by which it has been so long known ; and we are glad that it is thus designated by Captain Stanley Flower (to whom we are indebted for this and the photograph of the Addax) in the Zoological Gardens at Ghiza, near Cairo, now under his charge. The specimens at Ghiza were brought from Doneola, in JPhoto by Capt. Stanley Flower. YOUNG MALE ADDAX In Ghiza Zoological Gardens. but it is practically certain that these dark
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