THE ANTELOPES. 



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the Arabs [Addax nasomaculatus), fig. 177, 

 is found in the eastern Sahara and as far east 

 as Nubia, usually in pretty large flocks. 

 This antelope, which is more eagerly hunted 

 than any other by the nomads with their 

 slughis or Arabian greyhounds, is indeed less 

 clumsy-looking than the canna, but yet resem- 



bles the oxen pretty closely in the plumpness 

 of the body, the thickness of the legs, and the 

 general appearance of the tail, which is long 

 and has a large terminal tuft. The horns, 

 which are found on both sexes, are straight 

 from base to tip, but have a double .spiral 

 twist round their axis, and for two-thirds of 



Fig. 178.— The Caani.-i or Hartebeest [Buhalis Caama). 



their length up are surrounded by numerous 

 oblique rings. These horns served as an 

 ornament for the head in many of the deities 

 of the ancient Egyptians. The head, the 

 neck, and the short mane are brown, the rest 

 of the body whitish-yellow. A white trans- 

 verse stripe is always to be seen on the nose. 

 Regions of drought are the favourite abode 

 of the addax. It is a swift runner, and 

 defends itself with courage against dogs when 

 wounded. In captivity it is ill-tempered and 

 liable to accesses of fury. 



The Koodoo {Strepsiceros hidu), of which 

 there is a full-page illustration (PI. XXX.), 

 has long flattened horns, indistinctly ringed 



and with a marked spiral twist. The size, 

 the appearance, and the habits of this beau- 

 tiful antelope remind us of our stags. It 

 frequents the forests and the bush of the 

 whole of the interior of Africa from the Cape 

 to the borders of Sahara, lives like our stag, 

 and is used and hunted like it. The general 

 colour is a reddish or brownish gray, but 

 there are irregular white spots on the flanks. 

 The mane and the tail-tuft are blackish, the 

 long hair on the dewlap gray, the legs and 

 the middle of the forehead white. 



The Caama of the Kaffirs, the Hartebeest 

 of the Cape Colonists [Bubalis {A Icelaplms) 

 Caajfta), fig. 178, which is also of about the 



