KUDUS AND ELANDS 



3IS 



this is not so markt'd as iu 0. licatr'u:, which is largely wliite 

 with, howu\er, brown legs. The Gemsbok is a handsome creature 

 with greyish tawny colour, niucli darker on the legs, and with a 

 Gazelle-like, dark, side stripe. It has received its veruacular name 

 on account of its supposed likeness to the Chamois (" Gemse "), 

 just as the Relibok was so-called from its supposed likeness to the 

 Eoe Deer, and the Eland to the Elk. The Beisa {0. leisa) is of 

 a similar tawny colour to the last, and also with darker stripes. 



The Addnx (Achh/j:) of North Africa, Arabia and Syria, has 

 but one species (A. nasomaculatios). The horns are spirally twisted. 



The Tragelajiliine section includes the Kudus, Elands, Nilgais, 



Fig. 164. — Speke'.s Antelope. Tragclaplms spehii (9)- x^V 



and Harnessed Antelopes, 

 horns are present in both 

 nose is naked with a slight 

 or Oriental in range. 



The genus Tragda-phus 

 called on account of the 

 harness. The females are 

 sexes are different. The 

 unusually separable, which 



They are all long-horned (when the 

 sexes), the horns being twisted ; the 

 median groove, and all are Ethiopian 



includes the Harnessed Antelopes, so 

 direction of the stripes suggesting 

 hornless, and the colours of the two 

 hoofs are long and the toes rather 

 state of affairs is in accord with the 



