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GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES 
destroy a far greater quantity of game than falls before the rifle. It is 
hoped that these facts will induce the reader to look upon the game 
reports without hasty and ill-considered judgment and with a clearer 
understanding of the facts and necessities involved. 
The Oryx.—We now come to a smaller species of antelope, the 
THE ORYX 
oryx or gemsbok. The male stands about three feet ten inches at the 
shoulder. The horns of the oryx are peculiar and worthy of note. 
Upwards of three feet long, they rise nearly or quite straight up from 
the head and seen in profile the long straight horns so exactly cover 
one another as to seem but one. Hence, this animal is supposed to 
