4+ MR. E. T. BENNETT ON THE M’HORR ANTELOPE. 
naked muzzle limited to a narrow border round the nostrils, which is prolonged in a 
middle line as far as the margin of the upper lip. The horns are black, imbedded at 
their base in long hair, and marked, in this individual, with eight complete, rather 
distinct, well defined rings, and one or two incomplete ones, which occupy about two 
thirds of their entire length, the remainder towards the points being perfectly smooth 
and shining. They rise upwards from the head, and pass backwards, and a little out- 
wards to a short distance beyond the termination of the rings, from which point they 
form a strong curve forwards, and thus bring the upper and smooth part to a right 
angle with the rest of the horn, and with the line of profile. Their extreme point is 
nearly straight. In the living individual, which is evidently an older animal, the number 
of rings is eleven ; the base of the horns rises more abruptly from the head, and the pro- 
portionate length of the annulated and smooth portions corresponds with the greater 
development of the former. 
The colour of the upper parts is a deep fulvous or dull bay, which extends about two 
thirds down the sides, where it terminates abruptly in the white of the belly. It is 
continued along the middle of the back to within a short distance of the tail, and is 
rounded posteriorly. From the hinder part of the sides the deep colour is continued in 
a broad and somewhat triangular patch upon the haunches, whence it proceeds in a 
narrowing stripe down the middle of the outside of the legs as far as the hock, on which 
it extends rather broadly backwards, and below which the stripe crosses obliquely and 
gradually towards the front of the limb, terminating a short distance above the hoofs, 
and occupying at its termination the anterior outer part of the fetlock. Throughout 
this course the separation of the fulvous colour from the pure white immediately ad- 
joining it, is strongly defined. 
At the shoulders, in the individual under description, the deep upper colour termi- 
nates below abruptly ; but above the knees on the outer surface of the fore legs a faint 
stripe is seen gradually deepening downwards to the colour of the upper surface. It 
crosses below the knees towards the front, and terminates above the hoofs like the 
stripe on the hinder legs. In the imperfect skin before mentioned, and in the living 
individual, the stripe is lengthened upwards so as nearly to join the dark upper colour, 
with which it is united by a streak of a fainter hue. 
The brush below the knees is well marked, and rather large. It occupies the front 
of the leg, is bounded exteriorly by the deep colour, and is surrounded in the rest of 
its circumference by white; the whole of the hairs directed towards its centre are 
white. They are rigid and erect, and much longer than the adjoining hairs. 
The deep fulvous colour of the upper surface extends over the whole neck both above 
and below, and becomes fainter on the head, passing up the cheeks and fading away 
under the eyes; between the ears and behind the horns it is tinged with blackish 
or iron-grey, This grey occurs again in front of the horns, where it is slightly inter- 
mingled with rufous, and is continued in a broad stripe down the middle line of the face 
