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STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS 



Then if the reader will turn to the Review of Reviews of March 

 IS> 1893, where a character-sketch of the great African hunter, 

 Mr. F. C. Selous, is given, he will find on p. 258 a Kudu Bull 

 beautifully striped, with no spots, and on p. 260 an allied 

 Antelope, the Bushbuck of the river Chobe, which is striped 

 and also spotted. Of the latter a fine illustration is given in 



Fig. 30. — Shows the young of a Deer covered with spots, while the adult has none ; 

 taken from a photograph, Zoological Society's Gardens. 



the Roy. Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 277. See also Appendix A, 

 Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23, and 25, of this book. 



The changes from spotting to nothing in the same individual, 

 and from spotting to striping, or a mixture of both, in the same 

 genus of Antelopes, is very remarkable. For some reason the 

 spotting of the adult of Axis maculatus, shown in Fig. 14, is not 

 obliterated, although in the Deer of Fig. 30 no sign of spotting 

 remains in the adult. 



