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rower line to a second which spreads over the chaffron to 

 near the nostrils ; a similarly-coloured streak passes through 

 the eyes towards the mouth, and often spreads over the 

 cheek and throat ; the dark colour appears also in the form 

 of a band on the upper arm, or spreads downward over 

 the fore-legs to near the fetlocks ; the hind-legs, from the 

 houghs downwards, are likewise dark coloured, but up- 

 wards, on the lower thigh, this colour passes into brown 

 and rufous, till it is blended into the white which spreads 

 over the whole body, neck, and face ; the tuft at the end of 

 the tail is black, the ears are long and pointed, and the 

 aspect of the animal is somewhat vaccine. 



This species is known to the Persians by the names of 

 El Walrush and Bukrus. The Arabs name it Ghau Bahrein, 

 or the Ox of Bahrein, from whence it appears to be a stranger 

 in the western provinces of that peninsula*. Their resi- 

 dence is in the desert and sandy districts ; we have seen the 

 head of one shot on the west side of the Indus, in the deserts 

 of the Mekran. 



The Nubian Oryx. (A. Tao.) Whether this animal be 

 a distinct species, or only as a variety of the former, we 

 cannot determine, but certain it is that the Nuinidian forms 

 at least a very distinct race. The adult male is larger, being 

 near four feet high at the shoulder, and seven feet in length 

 from the nose to the insertion of the tail ; the horns are 

 three feet four inches long, more robust, more spirally an- 

 nulated, and equal in their curve the whole length ; the an- 

 terior part of the nose is more blunt, the neck not so short, 

 the body less clumsy, and the limbs, though finely turned for 

 strength and speed, more bony ; the hoofs are low, flat, and 

 not pointed. In the colours they differ also, being all over 

 the body rufous white, that colour predominating chiefly on 



* The "n»rv Jachmur, which, according to Niebuhr, inhabits the 

 mountainous tracts of Arabia and about the Euphrates, the same 

 as the Arabic Yazmur, is evidently the present animal. 



