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The Living Animals of the World 





Photo hij tliC Duclaxa uf Uuljo,-'l.\ 



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FEMALE GORAL. 

 iral ia a Hini;L];iyan antelnpe, with solijewhat tlie habits of a chamois. 



it frtiiii siiikiiiy. 



When fdiced out into 



di'v ground by heavy 



floods, tlie formation 



of its feet so hinders 



it in runiring tliat it 



can be overtaken and 



speared liy a native 



on foot. I was 



informed by the 



natives on the Chobi 



Kiver that, when the 



floods enabled them 



to paddle their canoes 



through the reed-beds, 



they often killed con- 

 siderable numbers of 



the sitatungas. These 



animals, they said, 



when they saw a canoe 



apjiroaching, would 



often not attemjit to 



seek safety by flight, but would shik down in tlie water, submerging their whole bodies, and 



leaxing only their nostrils above the surface, and in this position were easily speared. 



The sitatunga is not gregarious, l)ut is met with singly or in pairs. The hair is long, 



but soft and silky; and the skins are much sought after Ijy the natives for blankets. 



In addition to tlie bushbucks ami sitatungas, two more very notable spiiral-horned African 



antelopes remain to be mentioned — namely, the Greater Kudu and the Lkssek Kudu. 



The Greater Kudu is one of the most magnificent-looking of the wliole fsimily of antelopes, 



and is an animal of 



" ; large size, an adult 



male stantling 4 feet 

 i) inches and upwards 

 at the withers. The 

 general colour of this 

 species is light brown 

 to dark grey, the old 

 ]nales looking much 

 darker than females 

 or younger animals, 

 because the scanti- 

 ness of their coats 

 shows the tlark colour 

 of the skin beneath. 

 On each side of the 

 1)0 dy anil hind- 

 (piarters there are 

 several white stripes, 

 which vary in number 

 from four to eight or 

 nine. As in all this 

 group of antelopes. 



I'lwlo hy IV. P. Dando] 



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HARNBSSED ANTHJ.orii. 



A vei-y heantiful sptjcics, irt ,vl,icli the Kronoil-coh.ur of the; iiotit is a rich cltcstm.t, w l,ilo the spots tmd stripes 



an? imre wliito. 



