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Ethiopian region. It has a naked muzzle and a bare 
glandular spot below each ear, and there is a large 
depression in the bones for the face glands. The horns 
are about three-quarters of the length of the head and 
annulated at the base ; height at withers about twenty 
inches. The females are hornless. 
Graceful little Oribis are numerous in East Africa especially 
in open country. They abound in thousands on the great 
grassy plain known as the Guas Ngishu plateau. When 
disturbed they leap through the long grass and appear 
as “fleeting streaks of yellow.” 
When the grass has been fired and the young green grass 
is sprouting out of the black patches, the little antelopes 
are easily seen. John T. McCutcheon, the celebrated 
caricaturist of Chicago, writes :—“ AVhen the grass on 
the plateau is burned, the ant-hills show up like a 
popular cemetery without tombstones, then the landscape 
is alive with graceful little oribis,” 
