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During the 9th of July, Dick Sand had to give proof of extreme coolness. He was alone on the shore, carrying off a "caama," the horns of which showed above the thicket. He had just shot it, and now there bounded, thirty feet off, a formidable hunter, that no doubt came to claim its prey, and was not in a humor to give it up.
It was a lion of great height, one of those which the natives call "karamos," and not one of the kind without a mane, named "lion of the Nyassi." This one measured five feet in height a formidable beast. With one bound the lion had fallen on the "caama," which Dick Sand's ball had just thrown to the ground, and, still full of life, it shook and cried under the paw of the powerful animal.
With respect to an allied species, in which there is an equal sexual difference in colour, see Sir S. Baker, 'The Albert Nyanza, 1866, vol. ii. p. 627. For the A. sing-sing, Gray, 'Cat. B. Mus. p. 100. Desmarest, 'Mammalogie, p. 468, on the A. caama. The emasculated bull reverts to the colour of the female.
Desmarest, on the absence of suborbital pits in Antilope subgutturosa; on the whiskers of Macacus; on the colour of the opossum; on the colours of the sexes of Mus minutus; on the colouring of the ocelot; on the colours of seals; on Antilope caama; on the colours of goats; on sexual difference of colour in Ateles marginatus; on the mandrill; on Macacus cynomolgus.
Antilope montana, rudimentary canines in the young male of. Antilope niger, sing-sing, caama, and gorgon, sexual differences in the colours of. Antilope oreas, horns of. Antilope saiga, polygamous habits of. Antilope strepsiceros, horns of. Antilope subgutturosa, absence of suborbital pits in. Antipathy, shewn by birds in confinement, to certain persons.
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