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V KUTEBRATA. 







TIIE EQCITOON. 



tarica, is the Colus of Strabo. It lives in herds among the Altai and Ural mountains, and wanders 

 from place to place in search of food. The body is fawn above and white beneath. When tie 

 flock reposes, one of their number keeps guard, and the males defend the young from the wolves 

 and foxes. At sunie seasons the males have a strong musky smell. These animals are easily 

 domesticated when taken young, and do not in that condition show any disposition to stray away 

 with the wild ones. They are the only true species of Antilope found in Europe. 



The Indian Saiga, S. cervicapra, is fawn above and white beneath, with a brown line upon 

 the flanks. It is found in India. 



The Goitred Antilope, Dzeren, Whang Yang, or Yellow Goat, Antilope gutturosa, and 

 the <io\ or Ragoa, Procapra picticauda of Gray, are both of Thibet. 



The Reh-Boc or Rhee-Boc, or Peele, is five feet long, and two and a half high ; the hair is 

 woolly, and the color an ashy-gray. Its form is light and graceful, and it runs swiftly with long 

 strides, movinc close to the ground: it lives in small families on the sides of hills, and is common 

 in Southern Africa. 



The [nob w.i \, Riet-Boc, or Heed-Buck, is of a deep reddish fawn-color; it lives in pairs or 

 small families, frequenting the reedy borders of mountain streams. It is found in South Africa, 

 but at some distance from the Cape. 



An animal .ailed Roode Rhee-Boc, or Red Roebuck, Antilope fulvo-rufula, is found in the 

 same regions as the preceding, and is probably a variety of that species. 



The W wio or N lgor, Antilope redunca, is four feet long, two feet four inches high; the color 

 a fawn or pale red. It is found at Goree, in Western Africa. This, too, is probably a variety of 

 the Riet-Bi 



Tin- Bodor, .1. Bohor, is also regarded as a variety of the same by I>r. Gray. 



The Eqj moon or Kob, . I. mli until, is of a pale-brown color, lives in small herds on the Gam- 

 bia, and resembles the gazelles. 



The I.ki iikk. '•'■' A. /'<•/"<, is of a pale-brown color above, and white beneath, and is nearly a< 



_r as the water-buck. It lives in Southern Africa along the River Zouga. 



* Tin- - spoken of as below by Livingstone in his "Travels;" the country where it was met with, about 



latitude tw entj degrees north and longitude t\\ entj -three decrees east, seeming to be a paradise of wild animals i 



"We found the elephants in prodigious numbers on the southern bank. They came to drink by night, and after 



baring ~lak<-<l their thirsl in doing which they threw large quantities of water over themselves, and are heard, while 



ring the refreshment, screaming with delight they evince their horror of pitfalls by setting off in a straight line 



■ and never diverge till they are eight or ten miles off. They are smaller here than in the countries far- 



tli'-r south. At the Limpopo, f>>r instance, they are upward of twelve feet high; here, only eleven; farther north in 



