. The game animals of Africa . mainly the blackish-brown markings of the beisa which have become chestnut in the presentspecies, while the fawn areas of the former have become white. The record horn-length is 44:^ inches. The range of the white oryx includes the desert-tracts of NorthCentral Africa from Nigeria and the hinterland of the Gold Coast toSennar, Kordofan, Nubia, and the Sudan generally. In most, if not all, modern works on big game and natural history WHITE ORYX 289 generally (exclusive of Brehms Tierleben) will be found statements tothe effect that the white oryx, together with th
. The game animals of Africa . mainly the blackish-brown markings of the beisa which have become chestnut in the presentspecies, while the fawn areas of the former have become white. The record horn-length is 44:^ inches. The range of the white oryx includes the desert-tracts of NorthCentral Africa from Nigeria and the hinterland of the Gold Coast toSennar, Kordofan, Nubia, and the Sudan generally. In most, if not all, modern works on big game and natural history WHITE ORYX 289 generally (exclusive of Brehms Tierleben) will be found statements tothe effect that the white oryx, together with the addax and the bubalhartebeest, ranges into Syria, or into Syria and Arabia. In somecases, indeed, it is true that a certain degree of qualification is attachedto these statements, but in other instances, as in Trouessarts CatalogusMammalium, they are made without any reservation whatever. Inthe case of the present species there may have been some confusionbetween the white oryx and the Beatrix oryx {Oryx beatrix) of Arabia,. ^»t<#i* Fig. 61.—Head of White Oryx. to which latter some writers transfer the name leucoryx. These state-ments appear to be at least very largely traceable to the late CanonTristram, who in his Natural History of the Bible and other worksincluded all three species in the Syrio-Arabian fauna. As regards the white oryx, Canon Tristram states that although itis still found on the confines of the Holy Land, he never obtained aspecimen, but that he had been quite near enough to identify it by itshorns. There can, however, be little doubt that the animal he reallysaw was the Beatrix or Arabian oryx ; and, so far as the present writercan ascertain, the white oryx does not apparently occur anywhere tothe eastward of the Nile. For further information on this subject U 290 ANTELOPES the reader may refer to an article in the Field newspaper for 1907(vol. ex. p. 249). Before leaving this portion of the subject, it should be mentionedthat those naturalists who
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