4 Mr. Woods on a new Species of Antelope. 
row; then expanded in a trifling degree ; again contracted, and, when 
level with the eyes, widened suddenly and proceeded, as a broad mask, to 
the nose, extending to the cheeks considerably, and on each side of the 
centre of the face: throughout its whole extent it was margined with 
deep brown ; a brown shade also mingled with the grey across the mid- 
dle of the mask, 
The nose was broad and dark grey, nearly black ; the muzzle hairy ; 
the lips brown, furnished with a few grey hairs. 
The neck and back were dull dark fawn-colour, a little freckled with 
yellowish brown ; the throat, chest, and abdomen, and the insides of the 
arms and thighs, of a very light Isabella, as were also the knees and el- 
bows. An indistinct grey stripe, caused by the presence of a few white 
hairs thinly scattered amongst the fawn-coloured fur, occupied the situa- 
tion of a dorsal line, on the lumbar regions. 
The sides were of a deep rich and glossy brown, which commenced 
at the breast, and passed, in an oblique line at its upper boundary, to the 
crupper, where it almost deepened to black : its lower margin extended 
half way down the upper arms, along the side of the belly, and down 
the outside of the thighs, nearly to the hocks. 
On the buttocks was situated a white oval disk, (similar to that of 
many of the American Deer,) which included the upper part of the tail: 
below the disk the tail terminated in long, coarse, scanty, black hairs, 
being altogether about 8 inches in length. ; 
The legs were of a beautiful pale reddish fawn-colour. The fur on 
the neck and shoulders was rough and long, but smooth and close on all 
other parts. 
The nearest similitude to the figure and general appearance of this 
species is possessed by the Vlacte Steenbok, nt. rufescens, Burchell, 
also a very rare animal having the same habitat, of which a specimen 
was presented to the British Museum, and figured and described in.Grif- 
fith’s Translation of the Régne Animal ;* but the two Antelopes differ 
in the following particulars. Although the direction of the horns, in profile, 
is similar in both, those of the 4nt. rufescens are parallel, and without 
the annulus; the mask on the face, and the hump on the shoulders, are 
* Griffith, Vol. LV, p. 249, and Synopsis, Sp. 839. 
