KUMINANTS. 



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general, they are remarkable for tlie beauty and elegance of their 

 forms. Ordinarily they shed their horns in spring. 



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The Kuminants with Hollow Hoens 



are extremely numerous, and it has been found 

 necessary to divide them into genera, from characters 

 of slight importance. To this section belong 



The Antelopes {Antelope). These creatures very much resemble 

 Stags in the elegance of their shape and symmetrical proix)rtions. 

 Of a restless and timid disposition, they are exceedingly watchful, 

 of great vivacity, and remarkably switt antl agile; their bound- 

 ings are inconceivably liglit and elastic. Their horns, whatever 

 shape they assume, are round and ringed ; in some sj^ecies they are 

 straight, in others curved and spiral. In some the females have no 

 horns, in others they are conmion to both sexes. Thev all possess a 



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