Dr. [Cuthbert] Christy adds his testimony to that of his predecessors in the same quest as to the invisibility of the okapi, whose markings and coloration—pace Colonel Theodore Roosevelt—so break up the surface of its large body and long legs as to cause it to fuse with the dark-brown, russet, while and yellow-white of the twigs and stems and leaf-stalks amongst which it moves. He also points out that the hoofs of the okapi are so closely pressed together that the footprint is almost like that of the single-toed donkey.
The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards
Covered perforate, brownish yellow, with three chestnut bands, striate, somewhat solid; whorls 41, flattened, the last subdeflected' in front; peristome labiate, expanded above, reflected below.
