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The Living Animals of the World 



Photo ly the Duchess of Bedford] 



FEMALE GORAL. 



[Woburn Abbey. 



The goral is a Himalayan antelope, with somewhat the habits of a chamois. 



it from sinking. 



When forced out into 



dry ground by heavy 



floods, the formation 



of its feet so hinders 



it in running that it 



can be overtaken and 



speared by a native 



on foot. I was 



informed by the 



natives on the Chobi 



River that, when the 



floods enabled them 



to paddle their canoes 



through the reed-beds, 



they often killed con- 

 siderable numbers of 



the sitatungas. These 



animals, they said, 



when they saw a canoe 



approaching, would 



often not attempt to 



seek safety by flight, but would sink down in the water, submerging their whole bodies, and 



leaving only their nostrils above the surface, and in this position were easily speared. 



The sitatunga is not gregarious, but is met with singly or in pairs. The hair is long, 



but soft and silky; and the skins are much sought after by the natives for blankets. 



In addition to the bushbucks and sitatungas, two more very notable spiral-horned African 



antelopes remain to be mentioned namely, the GREATER KUDU and the LESSER KUDU. 



The GREATER KUDU is one of the most magnificent-looking of the whole family of antelopes, 



and is an animal of 

 large size, an adult 

 male standing 4 feet 

 9 inches and upwards 

 at the withers. The 

 general colour of this 

 species is light brown 

 to dark grey, the old 

 males looking much 

 darker than females 

 or younger animals, 

 because the scanti- 

 ness of their coats 

 shows the dark colour 

 of the skin beneath. 

 On each side of the 

 body and hind- 

 quarters there are 

 several white stripes, 

 which vary in number 

 from four to eight or 

 nine. As in all this 

 group of antelopes, 



Photo by W. P. Dfindo] 



[Regent's Park. 



HARXESSED ANTELOPE. 



A very beautiful species, in which the pround-colour of the coat is a rich chestnut, while the spots and stripes 



are pure white. 



