Chap. XVIII. 



EQUAL TRANSMISSION. 



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white belly and a large white space on the buttocks ; 

 the head is still more oddly coloured, a lari>e oblono^ 

 white mask, narrowly-edged with black, covers the face 

 up to the eyes (fig. 69) ; there are three white stripes 

 on the forehead, and the ears are marked \\ith white. 

 The fawns of this species are of a uniform pale yellow- 



Fiir. eg 



Damalis pjgarga, male (from the Knowsley Menagerie). 



ish-brown. In Damalis alhifrons the colouring of the 

 head differs from that in the last species in a single 

 white stripe replacing the three stripes, and in the ears 

 being almost wholly white.^^ After having studied to 



2' See the fine plates in A. Smith's ' Zoology of S. Africa,' and Dr. 

 Gray's ' Gleanings from the Menagerie of Knowsley.' 



