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this is not so marked as in 0. Beatrix, which is largely white 

 with, however, brown legs. The Gemsbok is a handsome creature 

 with greyish tawny colour, much darker on the legs, and with a 

 Gazelle-like, dark, side stripe. It has received its vernacular name 

 on account of its supposed likeness to the Chamois (" Gemse "), 

 just as the Rehbok was so-called from its supposed likeness to the 

 Eoe Deer, and the Eland to the Elk. The Beisa (0. beisa) is of 

 a similar tawny colour to the last, and also with darker stripes. 



The Addax (Addax) of North Africa, Arabia and Syria, has 

 but one species (A. nasomaculatus). The horns are spirally twisted. 



The Tragelaphine section includes the Kudus, Elands, Nilgais, 



FIG. 164. Speke's Antelope. Tragdaphits spekii ( 9 ). x T V 



and Harnessed Antelopes. They are all long-horned (when the 

 horns are present in both sexes), the horns being twisted ; the 

 nose is naked with a slight median groove, and all are Ethiopian 

 or Oriental in range. 



The genus Tragelaphus includes the Harnessed Antelopes, so 

 called on account of the direction of the stripes suggesting 

 harness. The females are hornless, and the colours of the two 

 sexes are different. The hoofs are long and the toes rather 

 unusually separable, which state of affairs is in accord with the 



