2o8 Game of Europe, W. & N; Asia Sc America 



THE ADDAX 



(. -/(/(/(/.v iias'jDuiciilotus) 



The right ot this antelope to a place in the present volume is likewise 

 provisional. As it is described by Sir Harry Johnston in the Grcut ami 



Small Game of Af)-ica^ little need be said on this 

 point, except that the addax is a pale -coloured, 

 long-haired, and spiral-horned representative of the 

 oryx group, standing about 38 inches at the shoulder. 

 Its general colour is very pale fawn, with the but- 

 tocks, limbs, under-parts, and a chevron between the 

 eyes white, and a tuft on the forehead and the tail- 

 tip dark brown. 



Neither Sir Harry Johnston nor the authors of 

 the Book of Antelopes make any reference to the 

 occurrence of this antelope in Arabia ; but Canon 

 Tristram, in his Natural History of the BiliU\ published 

 in i86y, writes as follows : — 



" The addax {Antilope addax) has a wide range, 

 being found rather commonly, but not in large herds, 

 in the Sahara, Nubia, Egypt, and Arabia. I never 

 obtained it, but have been near enough to identify it 

 by its horns, on the Arabah, to the south of the Dead Sea, where it is 

 well known to the Bedouin. It is a large animal, over ^l feet high at the 

 shoulder, and with its gently-twisted horns 2^ feet long. As the horns, 

 though slightly spiral, stretch straight from the head, it can at once be 

 distinguished from the oryx or the bubale. Its colour is pure white, with 



I"iG. 45. — Skull and Horn 

 of Male Addax. 



