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them by hundreds. Under these circumstances it can easily be understood 
that the Saiga is a gradually vanishing animal in Kurope. One thing, how- 
ever, is in their favour, that the males, whose presence is betrayed by their 
horns, fall more easy victims to the hunter than the hornless females, which 
are more readily concealed in the herbage and thus escape notice. 
‘Fig. 49. 
Group of Saigas (7, nat. size). 
(From the ‘ Royal Natural History,’ vol. il. p. 298.) 
Herr Glitsch gives us detailed and excellent descriptions of the form and 
colouring of the Saiga, and of the other peculiarities of the animal of both 
sexes and in allages. In the winter coat the hairs on the upper part of the 
body are from two to three inches long, rather shorter on the underparts, and 
a long beard extends from the chin down the middle line of the neck to the 
breast. ‘The older the animal is the brighter is its winter dress. 
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