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GREAT GAME OF THE WORLD. 



BEATRIX ANTELOPE (Oryx beatrix). 

 [Dr. J. E. Gray, P.Z.S. 1857, p. 157.] 



The horns slender, straight, or only very slightly curved near the 

 tip ; White, a spot on the middle of the face, a smaller spot between 

 the base of the horns, a large patch on each cheek, extending above 

 up to the eyes, and united together beneath under the throat ; the 

 knees and front of the fore and hind legs, and a large spot on the 

 chest, dark blackish brown ; the legs to the posterior grey-brown ; 

 end of the tail black. 



This specimen is not half the size of the Gemsbok from the Cape, 

 and is immediately known from it by the distribution of its colours. 



In form and size it resembles the true Oryx (O. leucoryx), but it 

 differs in the straightness of the horn, the size and form of the cheek- 

 spots, and especially in the dark colour of the legs, and the well- 

 marked white ring around the fetlock joint, just above the hoof. 



The hair is whorled on the middle of the haunches like the rest 

 of the genus, and the hairs of the back in front of the withers are 

 directed forwards. 



Habitat — Head of Persian Gulf. 



LEUCORYX (Oryx leucoryx). 



Habitat — North Africa. 



