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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



length, 3 feet to 4 feet. Record, 60 inches. Height at 

 shoulder, 4 feet to 4i feet ; length, 7^ feet. 



This beautiful and graceful looking Antelope is now 

 only found in the Northern and Eastern TransvaaL 

 Portuguese South-East Territory and Rhodesia, so far as 



Fig. 112. — Sable Antelopes and Young. 



our limits are concerned. In habits it somewhat re- 

 sembles the Roan, but seems to prefer sparsely-wooded 

 high veld, interspersed with thick groves wherein to take 

 shelter; it is, however, occasionally found in thickly 

 wooded country. It is largely a grass feeder, and drinks, 

 regularly, so is never found very far from water. It is- 



