ist of African antelopes.

With regard to the Asiatic species, we can only find space to give their
names, and point out the localities they inhabit.

The Nyl-ghau claims to be mentioned first, as it is one of the largest
antelopes known. It inhabits the dense forests of India, and is a
creature of interesting and singular habits. The Goral and Serow are
also two large species inhabiting the Himalayas--especially in the
kingdom of Nepaul--while the Chousinga is a denizen of the wooded plains
of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa. Two others, Chousingas, are the Rusty red
and Full horned, both natives of India; and the Jungliburka, a species
found in the Bombay Presidency. In Persia we find the well-known Sasin,
or common antelope, as it is usually called; and in the Oriental
Islands, Sumatra furnishes us with the Cambing outan, and Japan with the
Japanese goat antelope. The Mahrattas have the Chikara, or Ravine-deer,
a species peculiar to the rocky hills of the Deccan. China is not
without its representative in the Whang-yang, or yellow-goat, which also
inhabits the arid deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and Southern Siberia.
The Goa is another Thibetian species; and this ends our list of the
tribe: for the two European antelopes, the Chamois and Saiga, and the
one peculiar to the prairies of North America--the Prong-horn--have
already received mention.

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.

DEER.

Of these graceful quadrupeds there are nearly fifty species known to the
scientific naturalist. These are geographically distributed throughout
the continents of Europe, Asia, and America; and several belong to the
great Indian islands. In Africa we find only two kinds, and these
confined to the mountain regions near the coast of the Mediterranean
Sea. Throughout the central and southern parts of that vast continent
no native deer exist; but their place is plentifully supplied by their
very near kindred the antelopes--for which, as already seen, Africa is
especially famous.

It will be evident to my young readers, that anything like a detailed
description of fifty different kinds of animals would take up a volume
of itself. I must therefore content myself with giving a brief account
of the more remarkable species, and a word or two only about those less
noted.

If size entitle a species to precedence, then decidedly the _Elk_ should
stand first. He is the largest of the deer tribe--not unfrequently
standing as high as a horse, a