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streak on the chaffron, three dark fine hnes inside each ear and a dark 

 streak down the front of the legs, terminating in a hlack fetlock as if 

 booted, completes the coloring. The duiker is found, like the grysbok, 

 along the coast in wooded and bushy tracts. 



The Kleenebok. — In coming to the kleenebok, or slate-colored 

 antelope, we have reached the last and smallest of this graceful and 

 beautiful antelope family. The little kleenebok when full grown is 

 only fifteen inches high and about twenty-eight inches in total length. 

 Its head is very long in comparison with its size, with a spacious 

 muzzle somew^hat resembling a rat's both in shape and expression. 

 The ears also are round and black like a rat's. The horns are black, 

 conical, reclined and slightly turned inwards and forwards. They are 

 but two inches in length. In general color the delicate little animal is 

 dull brownish bufif or mouse color above and whitish underneath. The 

 doe is even smaller and hornless. They are to be found in the forests 

 along the seacoast. 



It is with regret that we take leave of this usually swift and 

 gentle family, to pass on to uglier and more savage brutes, known as 

 beasts of prey. 



