. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. t were found that any truehartebeest, topi, or pallah developed four mammcB. More information might be collected as to the horns of the addax antelope. It hasbeen stated somewhat vaguely by some French travellers that there are forms of theaddax in the vicinity of the Upper Niger in which the horns have but slight spiraltwists, are thicker, and a- little; more like those of the roan antelopes. In collecting skulls: of all the little-known antelopes great care should be takenof the molar teeth, both in the lower and the upper
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. t were found that any truehartebeest, topi, or pallah developed four mammcB. More information might be collected as to the horns of the addax antelope. It hasbeen stated somewhat vaguely by some French travellers that there are forms of theaddax in the vicinity of the Upper Niger in which the horns have but slight spiraltwists, are thicker, and a- little; more like those of the roan antelopes. In collecting skulls: of all the little-known antelopes great care should be takenof the molar teeth, both in the lower and the upper jaw, as the shape, length, andstructure of these teeth are important in classification. The same thing may also be said about the bones of theskull, which so rarely arrive ina perfect condition. It wouldalso be interesting to obtainspecimens of the young soonafter birth in all the cephalo-phine antelopes, with a view todiscovering if any of these formsshowed in their very young stagestraces of the white spots andstripes so characteristic of theprimitive PhotoarapTt hy W. P. Danrlo. THE ELAND {Taurotragus canna) W^^r^/^c^-^ [In the next number of Animal Life will appear an article by Mr. F. C. Selous entitled An African GameHaunt of the Past.] ANIMAL ANECDOTES. A MoralVictory. Among the many animal presents received byQueen Victoria was an elephantwhich, when a mere baby, wassent to her by an Indian travelled as a deck passenger on one of theIndian mail steamers from Bombay, and as hehad attained but the height of a well-growncalf and was always docile and tractable, hewas allowed tohave the run ofthe decks for anhour or two everymorning. Among otheracquaintancesthat he formedwhile on boardship was that ofthe ships baker,whose galley hesoon discoveredto be the placeof origin of allthe sweet daintieswith which hewas feted. Herehe took to makinga regular morn-ing call, and wasgenerally regaledwith a of cake. But one morn-ing when hecalled and ex
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