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THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
lowish-red above, gray below, and has a tuft of hair growing out of its 
forehead. 
The Koodoo ( Strepsiceros kudu ) is South African, stands about four feet in 
height, is heavy, not very swift or enduring. Its three feet of horns are much 
twisted and keeled throughout. It runs in herds of four or five and, though living 
in the brushwood, finds no inconvenience from its antlers, which it lays back, after 
the manner of the moose. It is reddish-gray, with streaks of white on back 
and sides. Its flesh is specially palatable, so that the koodoo is frequently 
hunted. The natives, in imitation of the method of the wild dogs, take turns 
chasing the koodoo at full speed and falling back when exhausted. Such a 
hunting party includes women 
who act as vivandieres. It is 
often called the nellut , and the 
males incline to a bluer-gray 
than the females. 
The antelopes may be 
conveniently separated, so far 
as the African fauna is con¬ 
cerned, into those which affect 
the open country and those 
which prefer the thickets and the 
thorn-scrub. To the former be¬ 
long the onrebi, steinbok, vaal 
roebok, klipperspringer, and 
reed buck. To the latter class 
we must assign the duyker and 
roebuck. The natives will form 
hunting parties of as many as 
eight hundred persons and, 
making a circle of miles, will 
gradually close in upon the 
game. The slaughter of antelopes is specially great, but not unfrequently 
some of the animals will jump sheer of the heads of the hunters. Antelopes, 
gnus and zebras seem fond of one another’s companionship and are generally 
found pasturing together. 
UNGULATES.—SHEEP. 
The Musimon, or Corsican Sheep ( Ovis musimon ,) seems to be the primi¬ 
tive type of the useful, familiar and much-praised domestic sheep. It dresses 
not in wool, however, but in hair which, short in the warm season, begins to 
grow wavy as cold weather approa®hes. It is brown above and white beneath. 
The Asiatic Wild Sheep ( Ovis orientalis , or gmelini ,) is the most graceful 
of sheep, suggesting the deer just as the saiga antelope suggests the sheep. 
It is abundant in the salt lake regions of Asia Minor. It varies through the 
different shades of red to deep-brown, but is white on the abdomen and on the 
inner parts of the legs. 
The Turkestan Sheep ( Ovis kerelini ) has been made the subject of a 
monograph by Severtzolf, who has also discussed another Turkestan species 
(Ovis poli) , which has a different coloring but is substantially the same in habits. 
maned goat (Ovis trogelaphus). 
