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THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 



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most beautiful of all antelopes, the three Ethiopian genera being 

 all characterised by the more or less strongly-marked spiral twisting 

 of their horns, and the short crowns of their molar teeth ; the last 

 feature distinguishing them sharply from the sable antelope and 

 gemsbok group. The first of the genera in question includes the 



FIG. 58. HEAD OF GEMSBOK ( Oryx gazdla) . 



harnessed antelopes (Tragelaphus), in which the spiral twisting of 

 the horns is less marked than in the other two ; these antelopes 

 frequenting forest or jungle, and being most numerous in western 

 Africa. The kudus (Strepsiceros] agree with the last in that the 

 females are hornless, but the horns of the males form a more 

 corkscrew-like spiral than is generally the case with the harnessed 



