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ponderous yet symmetrical horns, spirally twisted, and exceeding three feet in length. These are 

 thrown along the back as the stately wearer dashes through the mazes of the forest or clambers the 

 mountain-side. The old bulls are invariably found apart from the females, which herd together in 

 small troops, and are destitute of horns." 



AXGAS' HARXESSED ANTELOPE.* 



This elegant animal, much like the Koodoo in its proportions, stands three feet four inches high 

 at the shoulders. In the male, which alone bears horns, these appendages are nearly two feet long, 

 twisted and sub-lyrate, having sharply-pointed tips of a pale straw colour, their other parts being of a 

 brownish-black, deeply ridged for half their length from their bases. The colour of the body is greyish- 

 black, tinned with purplish-brown and ochre, white transverse stripes, like those of the Koodoo, being 

 present on the neck, flanks, and cheeks. A black mane courses down the neck, whilst from the 

 neck and belly depends long shaggy hair in abundance, reaching to the knees. The ears are large, 

 and the face is of a bright sienna-brown. The tail is one foot eight inches long, black above, 

 with under side and tip white. The female is small, and of a bright rufous colour, with trans- 

 verse stripes more numerous than in the male. 



This species is foxuid in troops of eight or ten together, feeding on the mimosa bushes in the 

 Zulu country. Closely allied to it is a second from Central Africa, which is of a dull bay, nearly 

 uniform, colour, the horns reaching thirty inches in length. It is known as Speke's Antelope. 



THE HARXESSED AXTELOPES.f 



The HARNESSED ANTELOPES proper are all of small size, the elegant GUIB not being larger than 

 a Goat, its proportions being infinitely more delicate. It is of a pale bay colour, and the distinct 

 transverse white streaks, running down from the middle of its back with connecting bands, have 

 given the origin to its name. 



The BUSH BUCK differs in wanting any body stripes. It is also African. Writing of it, Mr. 

 Drummoncl remarks that the Bush Buck, " the male of whom is known as the ' Ukouka,' and the 

 female as the ' Umbabala,' and which differ so greatly that experience is necessary to teach one that 

 they are of the same species, is undoubtedly the finest in every way of all the Antelopes, whether 

 found in the [Cape] Colonies or interior, that are known to the hunter as ' small game.' In size it 

 resembles a full-grown Fallow Buck, weighing, according to age and condition, from nine to thirteen 

 stone ; its colour is a dark reddish-brown, often verging into black, and with indistinct markings 

 on the sides, haunches, and legs ; it has a great deal of hair, and a considerable mane, while the 

 neck, which is thick out of all proportion, is nearly bare. The last mentioned peculiarity detracts 

 from the otherwise graceful outlines of its body, the more so, perhaps, from the head being so finely 

 shaped and small. The horns are nearly straight, rough, and ringed for about three inches from their 

 base, and then taper away, smooth and polished, to an almost invisible point; they vary from nine 

 inches to a foot long, and from the way in which they are set on the skull, the immense strength in 

 the neck and shoulders of the animal, and their extreme sharpness, form about as formidable weapons 

 as could well be imagined, especially as their owner is the most plucky Antelope, without exception 

 or consideration of size, with which I have become acquainted in Africa. I do not think that in all 

 my experience ... I remember a single instance in which a Ukouka has not tried to charge 

 when wounded and brought to bay ; and no one, even after a very moderate experience, would ever 

 allow any Dog on which he placed any value to attack them." 



THE BOYIXE AXTELOPES. + 



Ihe BUBALINE ANTELOPE, together with the HARTEBEEST, has a peculiarly elongated and narrow 

 head, at the same time that the body is not elegant in its proportions, being triangular in form, heavy 

 in the shoulders, and falling away behind. The horns, which are smaller in the females, are turned 

 abruptly backwards at their tips after having been directed forwards and upwards in a lyrate manner. 

 The Bubaline of North Africa is of a uniform bay colour, and the much more recently discovered 

 * Euryceros Anyasii. t The genus Traydapnus. TH DamaUdtc. 



