104 MAMMALIA. 
goes, Kob and Koba by the Joliffs, and Vache brune by the French 
at Senegal.”’ This is certainly not the Kod of Buffon (xu. t. 32. 
f.1,2). The negroes at the Gambia declare that this animal - 
never hears more than one fawn; for after that period, the horns 
increase in length, and enter the loins and destroy the animals! 
The small variety in the Paris, Upsal and Stockholm Museums, 
described as A. Leucopheus by Pallas and Sundevall, which was 
formerly found at the Cape, but is now said to be extinct, is the 
size of the Common Stag, Cervus Elaphus. M. Sundevall ob- 
serves that it is as different from A. Equina, as the species of | 
Eleotragi and Tragelaphi are from one another ; and he observes, 
in a letter I have just received, “ I must tell you, that after the m- — 
spection of a whole series of A. Equina, which Wahlberg brought 
home, I am convinced that the A. lewcophea of Pallas is a very 
distinct race. Our stuffed specimen, that must have been adult, 
has much smaller hoofs than the very young A. Equina, male as 
well as female, amongst Wahlberg’s, and the tuft over the la- 
chrymal sinus, as I have shortly expressed in the printed survey.” 
Mr. Gray observes, “ When I examined the specimen at Paris, 
I regarded it as a young or rather dwarf specimen of A. Equina, 
and the absence of the nuchal crest led to this belief; and I am 
not satisfied that the number of rings on the horns is a suffi- 
cient proof of its being adult.” 
The Blaubok lives in herds of six to twelve, on the slopes and 
summits of small hills. They are most abundant north of the 
Kurrichane. They are exceedingly swift. Their flesh is used as 
food, but has a rank flavour, and is inferior to most of the 
South African Antelopes.—A. Smith. 
92, JEGOCERUS NIGER. The Biack Boc. 
Black. Face white, with a dark streak. Female and young 
brown. 
' Antilope niger, Harris, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. 213, t. 29; Gervais, 
Dict. Sci. Nat. Supp. i. 267. 
Antilope Harrisu, Harris, Narrative. 
Agocerus niger, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 158. 
Aigocerus niger (Sable Antelope), Harris, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, 
2; W.A.S. Africa, t. 23, and head; Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
H. 1846, 232; Knowsley Menag. 17; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 
133; Turner, P. Z. S. 1849. 
Hab. S. Africa. 
A male. S. Africa. Major Harris’s Collection. The specimen 
described by Capt. Harris. 
Male. S. Africa. From M. Sundevall’s Collection. 
- Female. S. Africa. From M. Sundevall’s Collection. 
