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wards over the neck in a graceful curve. These horns 
are thick ringed and sometimes measure forty-five inches 
in length. 
The hartebeest has horns of curious shape, and it is 
the most grotesque of all antelopes. It has a long 
The Skull and Horns of a Hartebeest. 
narrow skull, and the narrowness is accentuated by 
a thick ridge of bone which rises from the frontal bone, 
just above the orbits, and forms a pedicle for the horns. 
As if to bridge the gap between the peculiar annulated 
horns of the hartebeest and the curious downward 
curving horns of the gnus, we have the Topi, the 
