. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. lower hasPublic Works Department, and sent to the recently presented a specimen to the Britishwriter by Captain Flower. Unfortunately, Museum. The handsome animal representedthe length of the horns of the Ghiza in our illustration on this page is called byspecimen of the ibex is not given, but Captain Flower the Great Nuer Ox. I amthey appear to be unusually large. The not aware from what part of the country itmaximum length at present recorded for the comes, though it is probably a native of thespecies is fifty inches. The
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. lower hasPublic Works Department, and sent to the recently presented a specimen to the Britishwriter by Captain Flower. Unfortunately, Museum. The handsome animal representedthe length of the horns of the Ghiza in our illustration on this page is called byspecimen of the ibex is not given, but Captain Flower the Great Nuer Ox. I amthey appear to be unusually large. The not aware from what part of the country itmaximum length at present recorded for the comes, though it is probably a native of thespecies is fifty inches. The Nubian ibex, Sudan. It is evidently one of the numerouswhich also occurs in Arabia, and probably breeds of humped ox, which probably origi-extends westwards into Morocco and Sene- nally came from Asia, although they are nowgambia, differs from both the European and widely spread in Africa. Compared withCentral Asian species by the comparative those of the Indian breeds, the horns ofslenderness of its horns, as well as by the the Nuer ox are very much larger, and in. NUER HUMPED OX. of sheep,so like ahornlessgoat thatby mostpersons itwould beso classed,although itposses sescertainfeatureswhich ap-p e a r tosupport itsright to beclassed asa Gar-dens alsocontainspecimens Notes and Comments 413 this respect they approximate to the Gallaox, in which these appendages attain theirmaximum development. Much interest attaches to tlie presencein the Ghiza Gardens of specimens of theWliale-Headed Stork {Balceniceps rex), whichwere brought down with some difficulty fromKhartum, where they inhabit the greatpapyrus brakes of the Nile In thesixties some of these great birds were hatchedfrom eggs at Khartum by Mr. Petherick,then British Consul in the Sudan; and someof them arrived safely at our own their death the only specimens broughtalive out of the Sudan are those at Ghiza,although there is an example living aloneat Khartum. A skin of the Shoe-Bill, asthe specie
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