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wards over the neck in a graceful curve. These horns 

 are thick ringed and sometimes measure forty -five inches 

 in length. 



The hartebeest has horns of curious shape, and it is 

 the most grotesque of all antelopes. It has a long 



The Skull and Horns of a Hartebeest. 



narrow skull, and the narrowness is accentuated by 

 a thick ridge of bone which rises from the frontal bone, 

 just above the orbits, and forms a pedicle for the horns. 

 As if to bridge the gap between the peculiar annulated 

 horns of the hartebeest and the curious downward 

 horns of the gnus, we have the Topi, the 



