. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Photograjihs hy W. P. Bando. HOENS OFADDAX ANTELOPE(Male and Female). Wild Beasts and Their Ways 171. Photogtapli by W P Dando SABLE ANTELOPE{Hippotragus niger). adult male sable antelope is absolutely black and white,the black being of the blackest and the white of thewhitest, except perhaps for a slight brown touch aboutthe ears. The sable antelope is a little short in thelegs in proportion to the rest of its bulk, nor are thelegs as finely shaped as is the case in most pictures ofthis animal. But for this it would be one
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Photograjihs hy W. P. Bando. HOENS OFADDAX ANTELOPE(Male and Female). Wild Beasts and Their Ways 171. Photogtapli by W P Dando SABLE ANTELOPE{Hippotragus niger). adult male sable antelope is absolutely black and white,the black being of the blackest and the white of thewhitest, except perhaps for a slight brown touch aboutthe ears. The sable antelope is a little short in thelegs in proportion to the rest of its bulk, nor are thelegs as finely shaped as is the case in most pictures ofthis animal. But for this it would be one of the mostperfectly beautiful of living forms. Intermediate to some extent, perhaps, between theOryxes and the Eoan antelopes is the curious Addax, acreature confined in its distribution to the northern halfof Africa, to the Sahara Desert, and the more fertilecountries on the northern and southern fringes of thatwaste. The Addax also offers points of resemblance tothe Cervicaprines. Its ears do not attain the sameextravagant length as is characteristic of the Eoan andsome oryx antelopes. The orygine markings about theface are reduced to a frontlet of thick black h
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