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Identifier: gameanimalsofafr00lyde (find matches)
Title: The game animals of Africa
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting Big game animals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Fig. 63.—An Addax, in summercoat, from Dongola, in theGiza Zoological Gardens,photographed by Capt. S. S.Flower. 304 ANTELOPES Senegal river. In former days, judging from the Roman mosaics andfrescoes found in North Africa, the addax was a common animal inwhat would be now called central and southern Tunisia. In NorthAfrica the Arabs pursue the addax on horseback with fleet dogs—usuallyof the slughi or stout (long-haired, sandy) greyhound breed. Owing toits preference for inaccessible desert tracts, this animal is very rarely shotby Europeans. THE ELAND (Taiirotragiis oryx) Eland, Cape Dutch ; Tganna, Hottentot ; Pofo, Bechuana ;Impofo, Amandebili and Zulu ; Mofo, Meshune ; Ee-pofo,Makalaka ; Insefo, Masubia and Batonga ; Doo, MasarwaBushmen ; Sefu or Nchefu, Nyasa ; Mpofu, Swahili ; Siruzva,Masai ; Singoita, Wanderobbo ; Gunga AND Oncvenia,Angolese. (Plate xii, figs, i and 3) The last subfamily group of ruminants to which the name ofantelopes can properly be applied is that of th

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  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • booksubject:Hunting
  • booksubject:Big_game_animals
  • bookpublisher:London__R__Ward__limited
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  • bookleafnumber:325
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