. L'histoire naturelle. Zoologie. Les mammifères ongulés. 149 située au nord du Bechuanaland et connu sous le nom du pays, ou Khama, Bawangwato avec le nord du Kalahari. Même ici, cependant, leur existence est menacée, comme il y a une proposition pour mettre le tube du bas-puits dans le Kalahari, qui, s'accompli avec succès, va ouvrir le grand bastion de l'animal à l'Hunter. Si, par conséquent, efficace et rapide des mesures sont prises pour sa protection, il y a de bonnes raisons de craindre que la girafe sera avant peu être pratiquement exterminés à partir de cette partie de l'Afrique, bien qu'il dou

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. Natural history. Zoology. THE HOOFED MAMMALS. 149 lying to the north of Bechuanaland and known as Khama's country, or Bawangwato, together with the Northern Kalahari. Even here, however, their existence is threatened, as there is a proposal to put down tube-wells in the Kalahari, which, if successfully accomplished, will open up the one great stronghold of the animal to the hunter. Unless, therefore, efficient and prompt measures are taken for its protection, there is much reason to fear that the giraffe will ere long be practically exterminated from this part of Africa, although it will doubtless long survive in the remote districts of the Sudan and Kordofan. Although closely allied to the typical hollow-horned Ruminants, the prongs buck, or proTig-horned antelope (^iif iiocctpjTt ajreecicann) is regarded as repre- senting a distinct family, on account of the circumstance that not only are the sheaths of the horna branched, but The Prongbuck. that they are annually shed, and their place taken by new —Family sheaths, which have been growing up beneath the old ones. AntilocapridcB. In size, the prongbuck may be compared to a fallow-deer, although its form is lighter and more elegant. It has no lateral hoofs ; the horns are present usually only in the males; the ears are rather long and pointed; and the tail is short. There is a thick mane of long hair on the neck, and the general colour is chestnut; but there is a white patch on the rump, and white bars on the throat, while the lower portion of the flanks, to- gether with the under-parts, are likewise white ; the compressed and scimitar-like horns being black. Prongbucks are inhabitants of the open plains of Eastern-Central North America, where they associate in herds, which may frequently be of large size. The last, and at the same time by far the largest family group of the Ungulates, is that of the hollow-horned Ruminants, or Bovidtn; under which title are comprised antelopes, goats, sheep, oxen, etc. Almost t

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