. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. 220 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD though I have seen as many as eight, belonging probably to three or four families, feeding in close proximity to one another on young green grass. Another member of the reedbuck group is the Rooi Rhebuck of South Africa. This latter species, though a much smaller animal, is very similar to the common reedbuck in colour, shape, and general appearance; it is quite distinct in its habits and mode of life, as it lives in small herds of from four or five to fifteen head, amongst rugged stony hills, often far from water. The Bla
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. 220 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD though I have seen as many as eight, belonging probably to three or four families, feeding in close proximity to one another on young green grass. Another member of the reedbuck group is the Rooi Rhebuck of South Africa. This latter species, though a much smaller animal, is very similar to the common reedbuck in colour, shape, and general appearance; it is quite distinct in its habits and mode of life, as it lives in small herds of from four or five to fifteen head, amongst rugged stony hills, often far from water. The Blackbuck of India This handsome species is found throughout India wherever there are open cultivated plains. The male stands about 32 inches at the shoulder, and when full grown is of a glossy black colour, with the exception of a chestnut-coloured patch at the back of the neck, and some markings of the same colour about the face. The belly and insides of the limbs are pure white, the line between the black and white being very clearly defined. The whole body and frame are very compact, strong, and beautifully proportioned, and the head is carried high. The males alone in shape, annulated almost to from 18 to 28 inches. Young coloured instead of black, met with in considerable cultivated tracts alternate with much damage to the natives' first execute a series of pro- before finally settling down to prisingly fleet, and can seldom greyhounds, although they down without difficulty by are often called, hunting- The Palla, which is Eastern Africa from Bechuana- the most graceful of animals, and is never found far from general bright reddish brown, alone carry horns, which are vary from 14 to upwards of finest specimens of the palla southerly and most northerly animals inhabiting the inter- and carrying shorter horns, in herds of from twenty to alarmed, they bound over. iniiiii Ill Phcu b} Mist E. J. Bed ARABIAN GAZELLE Gazel/es are same of the most slenderly built of all antelopes ca
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