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furnished with very long straight or slightly recurved horns, | base, and are placed in a line with the anterior surface of 
which are also present, though not quite sohighly developed, | the face, or nearly so. They constitute a formidable 
in the females. These organs are more or less ringed at the | weapon of attack and defence, and on this account be- 
Pic. 11.—Lhe Beatrix Antelope. 
come frequently broken in the case of captive specimens. The best known member of the genus Oryx isthe 
The colour of the Oryxes is generally of a brilliant | Leucoryx (Oryx /eucoryx), a native of Senegal, but 
white, ornamented by black strerks, and occasionally | also met with in Sennaar and Nubia. Of this ante- 
clouded with shades of grey and rufous, lope, examples have been for many years in {the Zoo- 
Fic. 12.—The Thar. 
logical Society’s Menagerie, and have bred young ones , still more beautiful Beisa Antelope (Oryx deta), of 
on several occasions. Besides this species the Society’s | Abyssinia. This antelope bred in the Society’s Gardens 
Collection contains at present several specimens of the | last year, and the young animal has been figured in a re- 
