Wild beasts and their ways : reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America . re prettily shaped, something like the gazelle, but spread-ing. The females have no horns, but they are nearly the samecolour as the male, a yellow body with snow-white belly. The sizeof the pallah is about the same as a fallow-deer. The prettiest creature of the jungles is the harnessed antelope(A. scripta). This is never found in herds, but generally in pairs,or three or four together. It is seldom met with in open plains,but it is an inhabitant of the bush, and will lie tolerably close,starting up with a franti
Wild beasts and their ways : reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America . re prettily shaped, something like the gazelle, but spread-ing. The females have no horns, but they are nearly the samecolour as the male, a yellow body with snow-white belly. The sizeof the pallah is about the same as a fallow-deer. The prettiest creature of the jungles is the harnessed antelope(A. scripta). This is never found in herds, but generally in pairs,or three or four together. It is seldom met with in open plains,but it is an inhabitant of the bush, and will lie tolerably close,starting up with a frantic rush when suddenly disturbed. A finebuck will weigh about 90 lbs. The male is dark-brown, ornamentedwith snow-white stripes, six or seven of which descend from theback upon either flank and the hind-quarters; a few white marksare upon the shoulders, and white spots upon the thighs; a longwhite line from the shoulder extends in a continuation below thetransverse marks upon the flanks, and terminates near the junction1 This is the Kobus Maria of Gray, or Megaceros of CO -riCO XXI AFRICAN ANTELOPES 347 of the hind leg. This resembles a white trace, hence the nameharnessed antelope. There are many varieties of small antelopes which are hardlyworth enumeration. These are scattered throughout an immensearea north of the equator, and are never to be found in the samelocality. The oryx (leucoryx) or the leptoceros of Heuglin is knownby the Arabs as the bagger el wahash (cow of the wilderness).This fine antelope is confined to certain districts in the Takacountry, also in Kordofan, but I have never met with it. The lateProfessor Heuglin was a painstaking naturalist, whom I had thepleasure of knowing when staying in Khartoum, and we comparednotes of all the animals with which we were mutually arranged the following list, which embraces all that I knowpractically, and many others which I have not seen. 18. R. Lechee. 19. R. Megaceros (Black Antelope). 20. R. Defa
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