CHAPTER XXI 
AFRICAN ANTELOPES (a. BUBALIS) 
This interesting tribe inhabits more or less every 
part of Africa. There are varieties which differ 
in their habits so completely that it appears im¬ 
possible to accept them as belonging to the same 
genus, nevertheless they are all antelopes, the 
distinction of the class consisting in the formation 
of the horns, and the tear-ducts beneath the eyes. 
As before mentioned, the horns of antelopes differ 
entirely from those of deer, as they resemble those 
of oxen, which are mere sheaths that fit upon a 
conical bony projection, and are permanent. 
The difference in size is very marked, varying 
from the tiny oom dik-dik ( Hemprichianus ), which 
weighs about 16 lbs., to the roan antelope, and 
the still heavier eland (Boselaphus oreas ), that 
would weigh 900 or 1000 lbs. 
The most common of the larger antelopes is 
the bubalis, known by the Arabs as the tetel 
and at the Cape as the “ hartebeest.” 
There are two varieties of this animal, specially 
distinguished by the horns. In Abyssinia these 
