RUMINANTS. 



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general, they are remarkable for the beauty and elegance of their 

 forms. Ordinarily they shed their horns in spring. 



FlG. 432. STAG. 



THE KUMINANTS WITH HOLLOW HORNS 



are extremely numerous, and it has been found 

 necessary to divide them into genera, from characters 

 of slight importance. To this section belong 



The Antelopes (Antelope}. These creatures very much resemble 

 Stags in the elegance of their shape and symmetrical proportions. 

 Of a restless and timid disposition, they are exceedingly watchful, 

 of great vivacity, and remarkably swift and agile; their bound- 

 ings are inconceivably light and elastic. Their horns, whatever 

 shape they assume, are round and ringed ; in some species they are 

 straight, in others curved and spiral. In some the females have no 

 horns, in others they are common to both sexes. They all possess a 



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