230 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
25 a IG Se | three large white spots on the cheeks, and a 
j | broad white arrow-shaped mark across the nose 
below the eyes. The female is similar in 
colorationto the male, but smaller and hornless. 
Little or nothing is known as to the 
habits of this very beautiful antelope. Du 
Chaillu, who met with it in the interior of 
Gaboon between 1856 and 1859, says that it 
is “very shy, swift of foot, and exceedingly 
graceful in its motions”; but he does not 
tell us whether it lives in pairs like the 
bushbucks, or in small herds like some of its 
other near allies. 
The INYALA is another bush-loving ante- 
lope closely allied to the bushbucks. In this 
species the general colour of the adult male 
is a deep dark grey, that of the female and 
young male bright yellow-red, and both sexes 
are beautifully striped with narrow white 
bands on the body and haunches. In the 
RS, male long dark hair hangs from the throat, 
~ [Netting Hill chest, and each side of the belly, and fringes 
the front of the thigh almost to the hock, 
and the back of it up to the root of the 
tail. The ears are large and rounded; and the , 
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FEMALE NILGAI 
The largest of the antelopes of India, and a distant cousin of the Kudu 
horns, which are only present in the male, 
attain a length of about 2 feet in a straight 
line, and 30 inches along their spiral curve. 
The standing height at the shoulder of males 
of this species is about 42 inches. 
This most beautiful antelope has a very 
restricted range, being only found in a narrow 
belt of coastland extending from St. Lucia Bay 
to the Sabi River, in South-east Africa, and in 
a still smaller area in the neighbourhood of the 
Upper Shiri River, in British Central Africa. 
Before the acquisition of firearms by the 
natives in South-east Africa, the inyala was very 
plentiful in Northern Zululand and Amatonga- 
land, and was then to be met with in herds of 
from ten to twenty individuals; whilst the males, 
which at certain seasons of the year separated 
from the females, were in the habit of consorting 
together in bands of from five to eight. Constant 
persecution by the natives in Amatongaland and 
the countries farther north very much reduced 
the numbers of inyalas in those districts a long 
time ago; but in Zululand, where this animal  jgge 
has been strictly protected by the British Photo by Yor 
authorities for the last twenty years, it was still - ADDAX 
ntiful up to 1896, when the rinderpest swept 
ple tift p 90, 7 P P Unfortunately, the specimen from which thts photograph was taken 
over the country, and committed such sad had lost its splendid spiral horns 
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