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LEFT ANTEDILUVIAN 189 ANTELOPE little or two-toed ant eater. Both are South American. The scaly ant eaters are of an allied genus, manis. They derive their English name from the fact that they are covered with thick scales, which give them the ANTELOPE, the name given to the members of a large family of ruminant ungulata or hoofed mammalia, closely re- sembling the deer in general appearance, but essentially different in nature from the latter animals. They are included ANT EATER superficial appearance of reptiles. The with the sheep and oxen in the family short-tailed manis, M. pe7itadactyla of of the cavicornia or "hollow-horned" Linnaeus, is found in Bengal and the ruminants. Their horns, unlike those of Indian archipelago, and M. tetradactyla the deer, are not deciduous, but are per- in Africa. The proper and scaly ant eaters edentata, or toothless animals. To the same order belong the Cape ant eat- ers, orycterojnis capensis. SABLE ANTELOPE ANTEDILUVIAN, before the flood or deluge of Noah's time; relating to what happened before the deluge. In geology the term has been applied to organisms, traces of which are found in a fossil state in formations preceding the diluvial, particularly to extinct ani- mals such as the paleotherium, the mas- todon, etc. ADDAX ANTELOPE manent; are never branched, but are often twisted spirally, and may be borne by both sexes. They are found in great- est number and variety in Africa. Well known species are the chamois (Euro- pean), the gazelle, the addax, the eland, the koodoo, the gnu, the springbok, the sasin or Indian antelope, and the prong- buck of America.