Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 271
obliterated by the tension of the muscles that serve to propel the animal in its aérial course. The Spring-bok is a marvellously timid animal, and will never cross a road if it can avoid the necessity. When it is forced to do so, it often compromises the difficulty by leaping over the spot which… … rather more than three inches, while the front, CHOUSINGHA, OR CHOUKA.— Tetracerus quadricornis. or spurious horns as they are sometimes termed, are only three-quarters of an inch long, The height of the adult animal is about twenty inches. ' THE DuyKER-BoK, or Impoon, has derived its name of…
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