KUDUS AND ELANDS 



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this is not so marked as iu 0. hcatrif. wliieli is largely wliite 

 with, howe\er, hrown legs. I'he Geinsl)ok is a liandsome creature 

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

 Gazelle-like, dark, side stri})e. It has received its vernacular name 

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

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

 E06 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 (Achkcx) of North Africa, Arabia and Syria, has 

 Tiut one species (A. nasomacidatHji). The horns are spirally twisted. 



The Tragelaphine section includes the Kudus, Elands, Nilgais, 



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Fi(!. 164. — Speke's Antelope. Trarjdaphus spehii ( 9 ). 



and Harnessed Antelopes, 

 horns are present in both 

 nose is naked with a slight 

 or Oriental in range. 



The genus 2'ragela'plivs 

 called on ' account of the 

 harness. The females are 

 sexes are different. The 

 unusually separable, which 



They are all long-horned (when the 

 sexes), the horns being twisted ; the 

 median groove, and all are Ethiopian 



includes the Harnessed Antelopes, so 

 direction of the stripes suggesting 

 hornless, and the colours of the two 

 hoofs are long and the toes rather 

 state of affaii's is in accord with the 



