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With most or all of the highly-ornamented species of Tragelaphus the males are darker than the hornless females, and their crests of hair are more fully developed. In the male of that magnificent antelope, the Derbyan eland, the body is redder, the whole neck much blacker, and the white band which separates these colours broader than in the female.

There is also the term ‮عرق‬, "decayed flesh or bone." ‮يونس‬, Ἰωνας. Esaias is changed in the same way. ‮الضب‬, Thob monitor: probably, monitor pulchra. ‮كحل‬, Kohel, "powder of lead," name derived from the epithet "black." ‮حنّا‬, Henna, "Lawsonia alba," Law. It is the Ovis Tragelaphus of Zoologists. I was fellow-passenger from Mogador with the male oudad, now at the Royal Zoological Gardens.

Ottawa Acad. Nat. One of the above-named antelopes, the Portax picta, has a large well-defined brush of black hair on the throat, and this is much larger in the male than in the female. In the Ammotragus tragelaphus of North Africa, a member of the sheep-family, the fore-legs are almost concealed by an extraordinary growth of hair, which depends from the neck and upper halves of the legs; but Mr.

His daughter's Canathrum, says Xenophon, was no richer than that of any one else. The Canathrum, as they call it, is a chair or chariot made of wood, in the shape of a griffin, or tragelaphus, on which the children and young virgins are carried in processions.

In the Cape eland, also, the male is slightly darker than the female. Dr. Gray, 'Cat. of Mamm. in Brit. Mus. part iii. 1852, pp. 134-142; also Dr. Gray, 'Gleanings from the Menagerie of Knowsley, in which there is a splendid drawing of the Oreas derbianus: see the text on Tragelaphus. We meet in this species, as Mr.

I take this species of antelope, which stands about three and a half feet high, of a reddish hide, head long, horns short, to be the "Nzoe" antelope discovered by Speke in Uganda, and whose Latin designation is, according to Dr. Sclater, Tragelaphus Spekii." It has a short bushy tail, and long hair along the spine.

The wild goat, or akko, mentioned in Deuteronomy, is not held sufficiently specific by naturalists, who imagine that it must be identified with another animal called by the Seventy tragelaphus, literally the goat-deer.

Trachea, convoluted and imbedded in the sternum, in some birds; structure of the, in Rhynchaea. Trades, affecting the form of the skull. Tragelaphus, sexual differences of colour in. Tragelaphus scriptus, dorsal crest of; markings of. Tragopan, swelling of the wattles of the male, during courtship; display of plumage by the male; marking of the sexes of the.

Ammophila, on the jaws of. Ammotragus tragelaphus, hairy forelegs of. Amphibia, affinity of, to the ganoid fishes; vocal organs of the. Amphibians, breeding whilst immature. Amphioxus. Amphipoda, males sexually mature while young. Amunoph III., negro character of, features of. Anal appendages of insects. Analogous variation in the plumage of birds. Anas. Anas acuta, male plumage of.