Brehm's Life of animals - a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools (1895) (19792343613)

Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools

Identifier: brehmslifeofanim00breh (find matches)

Year: 1895 (1890s)

Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; PechuLoesche, Eduard, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard

Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior

Publisher: Chicago : Marquis

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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r : ft THE KOODOO. This animal, belonging to the group of Spiral-Horned Antelopes, is large, symmetrical and prettily marked, the white stripes on its sides being a specially prominent feature. The female resembles the male except that the latter bears on his head a magnificent pair of spirally twisted horns, over three leet in length. It ranges through all of eastern Africa, from the Nile to Cape Colony. (Strepsiccros kudu.) (501)

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