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and Foxes. Their principal food consists of the wormwood and 

 artemisia shrubs. Their sight is defective, but their sense of 

 smell is so delicate that they discover an enemy at a great 

 distance. 



We shall also mention a species of India, which is almost as 

 large as a Fallow-deer. Its horns, which are as long as its 



Fig. 83.— The Tartaiy Saiga [Antilope coius^ H. Smitll). 



head, are black (out of which the Indian Fakirs frequently make 

 poniards), lyrated, and annulated to their extremities. 



Among the African Antelopes may be mentioned the Coudou 

 {Sfrepsiceros kudu). (Fig. 84.) 



Nyl-ghau [Portax Tragocamelus) or Bull-stag is a native of 

 India (Fig. 85). It is a beautiful animal, about the same size 

 as the male of the Red-deer, and like it in general shape, 

 though it looks heavier, on account of the greater size of its legs. 

 Travellers have often compared it to an Ox, and, in fact, its name 



