. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2i XATVRAL HISTORY. With reference to ihese animals, the ITon. \V. H. Drummond tells us tliat " more Eland are killed from horseback than on foot; for as it is utterly out of the question to make a practice of i-unning them down, and as they generally inhabit the treeless flats, where they cannot, except by chance, be stalked, while the uncertainty of their movements and their keeping out of cover render it impossible to find them, like the large animals, by the aid of their spoor, some more certaia method is needed than the chance me
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2i XATVRAL HISTORY. With reference to ihese animals, the ITon. \V. H. Drummond tells us tliat " more Eland are killed from horseback than on foot; for as it is utterly out of the question to make a practice of i-unning them down, and as they generally inhabit the treeless flats, where they cannot, except by chance, be stalked, while the uncertainty of their movements and their keeping out of cover render it impossible to find them, like the large animals, by the aid of their spoor, some more certaia method is needed than the chance meetings which occur to the hunter when in pursuit of other game, moie especially as their hide is held in great repute by the Dutch colonists, who make trek-tows for their wagons, and reins for their oxen from it, even preferring it to that of a Buffalo. The demand thus induced has so diminished their numbers as to have restricted this noble Antelope to a few favoured localities, even in which it is becoming more scarce every day, while not many years ago it formed a component part of almost every landscape in the southern and eastern portions of ; llus IS I 1 THE KOODOO.* ne of the handsomest of all the Antelopes It is more slendei h t 1 nllc. The hoi us 11 build and smillei than aliout four feet long and foim most giaceful. open spirals like corkscrews, there being a ridge along tlieir whole length. The females are horn- less. The ear is large and trumpet-shaped, moved at the slightest noise towards its source. The eyes are large and liquid. The body colour is slaty-grey, with transverse white markings, like those on the striped variety of the Eland. A small mane extends along the neck and withers, and another from the chin to the throat and breast. The tail is of moderate length, and hairy. This species most abundant in Southern Africa, but it extends as high as Abyssinia. It is able to travel with very great speed, and makes prodigious bounds. It stands about
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