. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . rhee-buck is grouped with the small antelopes which are sometimescalled gazelles, though there is no accepted definition of this body of the rhee-buck is slender, with a long neck and small head,carrying nine-inch horns and small pointed ears. These horns arepeculiar, being straight, slender and vertical, with from ten to fifteenrings at
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . rhee-buck is grouped with the small antelopes which are sometimescalled gazelles, though there is no accepted definition of this body of the rhee-buck is slender, with a long neck and small head,carrying nine-inch horns and small pointed ears. These horns arepeculiar, being straight, slender and vertical, with from ten to fifteenrings at the base. The hair is very soft and resembles wool, whitishgray in color, with a cast of buff. The doe or female is like the male,but smaller and hornless. They, too, are chiefly to be .found in rockycountry. GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES 213 The Ourebi.—Still descending the antelope family in point ofsize, we next reach the ourebi, which is less than two feet high at theshoulder and very slight in body. The horns are four or five incheslong, black, round and nearly vertical, wrinkled at the base. There isa white arch over the eyes and the tail is short and black. Otherwisethe general color scheme is pale tawny beneath white and long w4iite. A LEOPARD ATTACKING THE SPRINGBOK hair at the throat. They are to be found in the grassy plains, usuallyin pairs. The doe may be recognized by the absence of horns. The Klipspringer.—The wxll-known chamois of Europe has aclose cousin in the African klipspringer. A peculiar antelope in thatit lives on the mountain tops like a cony and is furnished with singu-larly coarse brittle hair, giving it almost the appearance of a hedge-hog. Its height is about twenty-•^w^o inches at the shoulder and the 214 GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES body is square and robust, with a short broad head and small pointedmuzzle. The horns are about four inches long, round, distant, verticalbut slightly inclined forwards. The fur is ashy colored at the base,brown in t
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