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Ethiopian region. It has a naked muzzle and a burr 

 glandular spot below each ear, and there is a large 

 depression in the bones for the face glands. The horns 

 are about three-quarters of the length of the head and 

 annulated at the base ; height at withers about twenty 

 inches. The females are hornless. 



Graceful little Oribis are numerous in E.it Africa especially 

 in open country. They abound in thousands on the great 

 grassy plain known as" the Guas Ngishu plateau. When 

 disturbed they leap through the long grass and appear 

 as "fleeting streaks of yellow." 



When the grass has been fired and the young green grass 

 is sprouting out of the black patches, the little antelopes 

 are easily seen. John T. McCutcheon, the celebrated 

 caricaturist of Chicago, writes : " When the grass on 

 the plateau is burned, the ant-hills show up like a 

 popular cemetery without tombstones, then the landscape 

 is alive with graceful little oribis." 



