MAMMALS-SPOTS AND STRIPES. 



$39 



oildly Colored, a large oblong -vihite mask, narrowly-edged with 

 black, covers the face up to the eyes (fig. 71); there are three 

 white stripes on the forehead, and the ears are marked with 

 white. The fawns of this species are of a uniform pale yellowish- 

 brown. In Damalis albifrons the coloring of the head differs from 

 that in the last species in a single white stripe replacing the three 

 stripes, and in the ears being almost wholly white.=« After having 



Fig. 70. Tragelaphus scriptus, male (from the Knowsley Menagerie), 



studied to the best of my ability the sexual differences of animals 

 belonging to all classes, I cannot avoid the conclusion that the 

 curiously-arranged colors of many antelopes, though common to 

 both sexes, are the result of sexual selection primarily applied to 

 the male. 



'^ See the fine plates In A. Smith's 'Zoology of S. Africa,' and Dr. 

 Gray's 'Gleanings from the Menagerie of Knowsley.' 



