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The Harnessed Antelopes are among the handsomest of the 

 whole group. The small Guib (T. scriptus) is not larger than a 

 Goat, but T. angasi is 3 feet 4 inches in height at the shoulder. In 

 T. scriptus, T. angasi, and T. euryceros, the two sexes differ in colour, 

 the body is marked by white stripes descending from a white dorsal 

 streak, and the hoofs are short ; the third species differing from the 

 others by the absence of a mane on the neck, back, and belly. 

 T. grains agrees with this group in coloration (the mane being 



FIG. 143. The Kudu (Strepsiceros kudu). From Sclater, List of Animals in Zoological Society's 

 Gardens, 1883, p. 136. 



absent), but differs in the extreme elongation of .its hoofs. The 

 Nakong, T. spekei, while having the long hoofs of T. grains, has a 

 perfectly plain body coloration, with a mane on the neck. The two 

 species with elongated hoofs inhabit swampy districts, for which 

 this peculiar structure is admirably adapted ; and the Nakong, when 

 frightened, will rush into the water and leave only its nostrils and 

 the tips of the horns above the surface. The small Bushbuck 

 (T. sylvaticus) of South Africa has no stripes, and short hoofs. 



Strepsiceros. 1 Females hornless. Horns (Fig. 143) more twisted 

 than in Tragelaphus, forming an open spiral, with the anterior ridge 

 1 Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 155 (1843). 



