. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 172 Animal Life. Flwtiij} ipli bij J U McLilaii BLESBOK ANTELOPE. are long, and moderately convex in backwardcurve. This animal was well-known to theHebrews, Egyptians, and Greeks. Its range ofdistribution formerly included the greater partof North Africa in addition to the SaharaDesert and Egypt. At the present day it isfound in Senegal and along the northern bendof the Niger, in many parts of the SaharaDesert, and the Egyptian Sudan. Its rangewould appear to extend still northwards acrossthe Sahara Desert to the vicinity o
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 172 Animal Life. Flwtiij} ipli bij J U McLilaii BLESBOK ANTELOPE. are long, and moderately convex in backwardcurve. This animal was well-known to theHebrews, Egyptians, and Greeks. Its range ofdistribution formerly included the greater partof North Africa in addition to the SaharaDesert and Egypt. At the present day it isfound in Senegal and along the northern bendof the Niger, in many parts of the SaharaDesert, and the Egyptian Sudan. Its rangewould appear to extend still northwards acrossthe Sahara Desert to the vicinity of the fertileregions of Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, and is still reported occasionally to be met withto the south of the dried-up salt lagoons—theregion of the Shats—in the interior of Tunis. In Arabia a closely allied animal is theBeatrix antelope {Oryx heatrix). This handsome oryx is nearly pure white incoloration, except the limbs (which are brownish-black, the pasterns being white),the cheeks, the frontlet, and the nose-ridge, which are blackish-brown. Tiie whitetai
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