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RECORDS OF BIG GAM/'. 



Skull and Horns of Gemsbuck, from Mr. !". II. Barber's specimen. 



GEMSBUCK ORYX (Oryx gazella). 



The long, straight, spear-like horns, of which even the lion fights 

 shy, render the gemsbuck and its more immediate allies an easily 

 recognised sub-group. And even when, as in the white oryx, the horns 

 are scimitar-shaped, the)' differ from those of the sable antelope by 



