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Dik-l)ik is protected by tiny spikes of 2% inches. The Grysbok's horns run 

 up to 3\-2 inches, and the Black Wood Duiker and Wood Antelope each boast 

 4-inch horns. 



Livingstone's Suni Antelope also is a tiny short-horn (SV-j inches) , but it is 

 so very rare it easily claims special attention. While the horns of all the other 

 .small species mentioned above are practically smooth, those of Livingstone's 

 Suni are very heavily ringed, quite to their tips, as if they had been turned in a 

 lathe. There are only fifteen other pairs on record, and the longest measures 

 under 5 inches. 



A pair of horns of the White-Bearded Gnu (Plate V, Fig. 11) represents 

 a genus of African antelopes almost as odd in form as the okapi. On no 

 other living creature can be found such a nose and such hips as those of a Gnu. 

 Fortunately both the existing species take kindly to captivity, and a pair of 

 each is living contentedly in the Zoological Park. Horns of the White- 

 Tailed Gnu are more rare in collections than those of the other species, and 

 in South Africa absurdly high prices are asked for them. 



The horns of the Hartebeests (Plate V, Figs. 5 and 16) are nothing less 

 than grotesque. They suggest broken backs and arrested development. At the 

 base, they start out from the longest and thinnest of ungulate skulls with size 

 sufficient to carry them four or five feet. But early in life they change their 

 course suddenly and curve forward, spreading as they go. Very soon, however, 

 the Hartebeest says, "No, that will not do, either!" Abruptly and resolutely 

 they now bend sharply back again, and point out in new lines, aiming almost 

 anywhere. Presently complete discouragement settles down like a pall, the once 

 ambitious growth is hastily rounded up and terminated and that is all. Re- 

 gretfully we look upon the horns of a Hartebeest, of standard form, and think 

 what it might have been but for the vascillation and misdirection that left it an 

 ugly, misshapen thing. The skull, however, is interesting as showing the ex- 

 treme length and narrowness a ruminant skull can attain without complete seg- 

 mentation. 



THE BISON AND BUFFALOES 



Most ponderous of all horned ungulates, yet in my opinion the easiest for 

 the inexperienced sportsman to vanquish, are the Bison, Buffaloes, and Wild 

 Cattle. Asia possesses the great Ami, or Indian Buffalo, the Gaur, the Yak, 

 and the Gayal. Europe has the European Bison ; Africa the Abyssinian Buf- 

 falo, Cape Buffalo, Senegambian, Tchad, and Congo Buffaloes, and North 



