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'head ten inches; horns eleven inches, robust at base, approxi- 

 mating, parallel along the plane of the face, the points turned 

 forwards, round, shining, obliquely annulated, six or seven in 

 front, eight or nine in rear; naked, triangular spot before the 

 eye ; hair rather long, standing off, the shorter brown, the 

 longer grey, forming a cream-colour, whirling in several 

 places. 



Inhabits Caffraria. 



A. Isabellina, Afzelius. 



Redunca capreolus. (The Rhee-bok.) Adult male two feet 

 'five inches at the shoulder, four feet six inches long ; head eight 

 inches ; horns eight inches and a half long, straight, vertical, 

 •slightly inclining forwards, round, slender, with thirteen rings, 

 sharp pointed; black spot before the eyes; suborbital sinus 

 large beneath; muzzle round; the neck long; body very 

 slender; general colour whitish grey, with a cast of buff; 

 beneath white ; hair very soft and villous ; tail five inches, 

 >^ grey, tipt with white ; female smaller, but similar in colours ; 

 four mammce. 



Inhabits South Africa, — in small troops. 



A. Villosa, Burchell, MS. A. Lanata, Did. d' Hist. Nat, 

 Hhee-bok of the Cape Colonists, 



Redunca Scoparia. (The Onrebi ) Adult male twenty-two 

 to twenty-four inches high, four feet long; head eight inches; 

 horns nearly vertical, slightly bent forwards, five inches long, 

 with six or seven wi inkles at base, and five annuli above them, 

 round black points, smooth ; lachrymary sinus well defined ; 

 small muzzle; tufts on the knees; general colour of the face 

 and back tawny, or pale fulvous ; a whitish arch over the eyes ; 

 under parts white ; the throat and breast with loose white hairs ; 

 tail short, blackish ; the hide sometimes black : female the 

 same, with brushes on knees ; no horns. 



Inhabits the plains of South Africa. 



A. Scoparia, Schreb. et Auctor. Ourebi, Pent. Supp. Buff. 



Redunca Montana, Cretzschmar. PrevaiHn<r colour a beau- 

 tiful light brown, which is darkest on the top of the head and 

 lightest on the cheeks, the cxtiemitics and sides of neck and body ; 

 the breast, belly, inner surfaces of extremities find hinder parts 

 of buttocks, white ; each eye crossed by a white stripe tliat 

 increases in breadth but becomes less distinct as it descends ; 

 forehead broad; nose short ; horns placed on the edge of the 

 ^ forehead, straight till near tlio points which are inclined for- 

 wards and upwards ; cars without, {ircy-brown, within white, 

 their edges towards tips margined with brownish black hairs; 

 an oblong black blotch on the nape, and below the cars, in the 

 parotid region, a sraall bare black spot, margined on its upper 



