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HORNS 



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wards over the neck in a graceful curve. These h(jrus 

 are thick ringed and sometimes measure forty -five inches 

 in length. 



The liartel)eest has horns of curious shape, and it is 

 the most grotesque of all antelopes. It has a h.)ng 



The Skull and Horns of a Hartcbeest. 



narrow skull, and the narrowness is accentuated by 

 a thick ridge of bone which rises from the frontal bone, 

 just above the orltits, and forms a pedicle for the horns. 

 As if to In'idge the gap between the peculiar annulated 

 horns of the hartebeest and the curious downward 

 curving horns of the gnus, we have the Topi, the 



