WHO’S WHO IN JUNGLELAND 
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ones of the seven common varieties he must learn, 
for most of them are utterly strange to an American 
eye. 
He soon learns to pick out the wildebeest, or gnu, 
by its American buffalo appearance; he comes to 
know the little Thompson’s gazelle by its big black 
stripe on its white sides and by its frisky tail that is 
always flirting back and forth. The Grant’s gazelle 
Gazelle, with Wildebeest in Background 
is a little harder to pick out at first, and one is likely 
to get the Grant’s and Tommy’s confused. [But 
after a short time the difference is apparent, the 
Grant’s being much larger in stature and has much 
larger horns and is minus the Thompsonian perpet¬ 
ual motion tail. It certainly is a stirring tail! The 
impalla is about the same size as the Grant’s gazelle, 
but has horns of a lyrate shape. 
The hartebeest is speedily identified, because he 
is unlike any other antelope in appearance and ex- 
