. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 36 Animal Life The Egyptian and Arabian gazelles Egyptian are typi03-1 specimens of and Arabian their species. The latter aze e' was for several months catalogued as Thomson's Gazelle, of which no specimen has been exhibited in the menagerie. A very interesting species of goat, quite new to the Zoo, is illus- w?ldNaoit! tratcd m the photograph of the Nilgiri Tahr (Hemi- tragus hylocrius) from Southern India. Mr. Sclater gave the following description of this goat in the " Proceedings of the. ANTELOPE. Zoo
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 36 Animal Life The Egyptian and Arabian gazelles Egyptian are typi03-1 specimens of and Arabian their species. The latter aze e' was for several months catalogued as Thomson's Gazelle, of which no specimen has been exhibited in the menagerie. A very interesting species of goat, quite new to the Zoo, is illus- w?ldNaoit! tratcd m the photograph of the Nilgiri Tahr (Hemi- tragus hylocrius) from Southern India. Mr. Sclater gave the following description of this goat in the " Proceedings of the. ANTELOPE. Zoological Society, 1886 ": "The so-called Ihex of the Nilgherries, Anamallays, and other adjoining ranges of Southern India is an outlying species, apparently allied to the Hemitragus jcmlaicus, the Tahr which inhabits suitable regions along the whole range of the Himalaya from Kashmir to ; These two species differ from the true goats in the short, thick and much compressed horns, the anterior border of which is keeled, and the moist naked muffle. There are no glands in the fore-feet. The horns of the Nilgiri animal differ markedly from those of the Himalayan Tahr, being ARABIAN GAZELLE. much more rounded-off in the front external angle. We figure -two interesting examples of the genus Traqelaplms known as Bosch = bok and ° . , , , n Harnessed J- ? scrvpms and sylvaticus, and Antelope of popularly as the Harnessed South Africa. , , , ?. ,n Antelope (on account of the harnessed markings) and the Bosch-bok, HOSCH Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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