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and Foxes. Their principal food consists of the wormwood and 
artemisia shrubs. Their sight is defective, but their sense of 
smell is so delicate that they discover an enemy at a great 
distance. 
We shall also mention a species of India, which is almost as 
large as a Fallow-deer. Its horns, which are as long as its 
Fig. 83. — The Tartary Saiga ( Antilope colus , H. Smith). 
head, are black (out of which the Indian Fakirs frequently make 
poniards), lyrated, and annulated to their extremities. 
Among the African Antelopes may be mentioned the Coudou 
( Strepsiceros kudu). " (Fig. 84.) 
Nyl-ghau (. Portax Tragocamelus) or Bull-stag is a native of 
India (Fig. 85). It is a beautiful animal, about the same size 
as the male of the Bed- deer, and like it in general shape, 
though it looks heavier, on account of the greater size of its legs. 
Travellers have often compared it to an Ox, and, in fact, its name 
