MAMMALS, 



683 



his antlers were so long that he could not roll his head 

 without raising them on one side, while on the other they 

 touched the ground." The stag by this procedure gradu- 

 ally drove the party of rescuers backward to a distance 



Fig. 64. Strepsiceros Kudu (from Sir Andrew Smith's " Zoology of 

 South Africa "). 



of one hundred and fifty or two hundred feet, and the 

 attacked man was killed.* 



* See a most interesting account in the appendix to Hon. J. D. 

 Caton's paper, as above quoted. 



