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account of their water-loving propensities. The horns are long, 

 and present in the male alone. " The Water Antelope," writes 

 Drummond, "is an extremely fine animal. The large-sized 

 horns which, in the male, crown its brow, bear a strong 

 resemblance to those of the Reedbuck, while the habits and general 

 appearance of both species are almost identical. Both frequent 

 thickets and reedy places near water, and are principally found 

 in pairs or small groups." 



The Eland attains to the size of an ox, the bull standing six 

 feet and a half at the withers. Two varieties are known, one of 

 a pale fawn colour from Central Africa, the other, from South 

 Africa, of a bright yellow tan colour, marked transversely with 

 narrow white lines, about fifteen in number, running from a black 

 line, which goes along the back, to the belly. The full-grown bull 

 has a broad tuft of lengthy, slightly brown hair on the forehead, 

 between and in front of the horns, which are straight and long, 

 and at their bases carry a thick and conspicuous screw-like ridge 

 which extends in some cases nearly to their ends. The female 

 is smaller, slighter of build, and with less ponderous horns. 



Under the title of Gazelles are included several strikingly 

 elegant, small, slender, sandy-coloured species of ruminating 

 animals, in which the males always, and the females in most cases, 

 carry horns, which are transversely ringed, and vary considerably 

 in the direction which they take; many are curved in such a 

 way that the two together form a lyre-shaped figure, others are 

 nearly straight, turned slightly backwards or forwards, and 

 dividing or converging at the tips. When present, the horns of 

 the females are more slender than in the corresponding males. 

 The Gazelles inhabit Africa, Arabia, Persia, India, and Central 

 Asia only. They rarely exceed thirty inches in height at the 

 shoulder ; the largest, the Swift Antelope of Pennant (Gazella 

 mohr), reaching nearly three feet. In all the Gazelles the face 

 is marked with a white band running from the outer side of the 

 base of each horn nearly down to the upper end of each nostril, 

 cutting off a dark triangular central patch, and bordered externally 

 by a diffused dark line. The under surface of the abdomen is 

 white, and there is a dark line traversing the flank which bounds 

 this. Some twenty species of Gazelles are known. 1 

 1 Prof. A. H. Garrod, F.R.S. 



