. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2S NATURAL IIlSTOJir. THE ORYXES.* Of the Antelopes thei'e is a faii'ly well-marked section, distinguished by the possession of horns in both sexes, at the same time that the body is peculiarly deep at the shoulder, whilst the lengthy tail is cylindrical and tufted at the extremity. Among these there is a mane along the neck in three closely-allied species, the Blaubok, or Equine Antelope of South Africa, the Sable Antelope of the Transvaal and the eastern coast of Afiica, and Baker's Antelope, or the Maarif of Upper Nubia, as well as in t
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2S NATURAL IIlSTOJir. THE ORYXES.* Of the Antelopes thei'e is a faii'ly well-marked section, distinguished by the possession of horns in both sexes, at the same time that the body is peculiarly deep at the shoulder, whilst the lengthy tail is cylindrical and tufted at the extremity. Among these there is a mane along the neck in three closely-allied species, the Blaubok, or Equine Antelope of South Africa, the Sable Antelope of the Transvaal and the eastern coast of Afiica, and Baker's Antelope, or the Maarif of Upper Nubia, as well as in the Oryx, which is found in many paits of Africa, the Beisa of Abyssinia, the Beatrix Antelope of Arabia, and the Gemsbok of South Africa ; whilst in the not distant Addax Antelope of North Africa there is no nape-mane, but a sliglit one on tlic In the Blaubok, which stands more than four feet and a half at the shoulder, with a glaucous, gi-ey coat upon a black skin; in the Sable Antelope, which stands four feet and a half, being black except upon the abdomen, as well as in streaks upon the face, which are white; and in Baker's Antelope, which stands four feet eight inches, being of a pale fulvous liver coloiu-, the homs ai-e two feet and more in length, and curved gently backwards, being ringed transversely except at the tips, where they are smooth. In the Oryx, the Beisa, the Beatrix Antelope, and the Gemsbok, the lengthy conical horns, although similarly ringed, are much more slender, starting backwards in a line with the face, whilst in those previously mentioned they rise at an angle from it, being straight in the Gemsbok and Beisa, very sliglitly c\irved backwards in the Beatrix, and more so in the Oryx. In the nearly allied Addax the similarly-constructed horns are gently twisted in a corkscrew manner. All these last- mentioned Antelopes are pale in colour, being almost white, with the throat protected by long black hair. Whilst speaking of the Beisa Antelope, M
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