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the cheek ; shoulder, loins, and thighs, of a pure white, as also 

 the whole of the lower parts ; tail six inches long. 



Inhabits the forests of South Africa. 



Boschbok, Sparr. and the Dutch Colonists. A. Sylvatica, 

 Auctor. Boschbok, Allaman in Buff. 



Tragelaphus Scripta. (Harnessed Antelope.) Adult male 

 two feet eight inches high, four feet eight inches long ; horns 

 seven inches long-, reclining, straight, wav}% with two ridges 

 twisting spirally round the axis ; general colour bright fulvous 

 bay, two narrow lines passing from the withers obliquely down- 

 wards, one to the flank, the other to the groin, intersected at 

 right angles across the back by three others, and four or five 

 similar across the croup ; several round spots about the face and 

 thighs all pure white 



Inhabits Central and Western Africa, — about Senegal. 



Le Guib, Buff. Adanson? A. Scripta, Pall, and Auctor 

 Harnessed A., Pen. Shaw. 



Tragelaphus Phalerata, (Ribbed Antelope.) Male about 

 two feet four inches high, four feet long ; horns three or four 

 inches long, reclining, conical, not conpressed, without ridges 

 or transverse protuberances ; forehead broad ; a small black 

 muzzle ; general colour rufous , a black line edged on each side 

 by one of white, along the spine to the tail ; a second white 

 line from the middle of the shoulder to the groin, between them 

 nine perpendicular lines forming ribs, but not intersecting the 

 inferior ; ou the thigh many, and on the cheeks and face several, 

 round spots all of white. 



Inhabits Western Africa, about the river Congo ; — is found 

 in the busliy plains. 



A. Phalerata, H. Smith. Le Guib, var Desmar. in note. 



Genus Capra. 



Incisors ?, canines 8 §, molars 5 i, — 32. Horns common to 

 both sexes, or rarely wanting in the females, in domesticated 

 races, occasionally absent in both ; they are directed upwards, 

 or depressed backwards, more or less angular, nodose; no muz- 

 zle, no lachryjuary sinus, nor inguinal pores ; eyes light coloured, 

 pupil elongated; tail short, fiat, and naked at base ; below the 

 chin, bearded. Reside in the primitive and highest mountains of 

 the ancient continent. The domestic varieties are more or less 

 subject to modifications in their general characters. 



Capra Jaela, H. Smith. (Aby.isinian Ibex.) Adult male 

 somewhat higher at the shoulder than the Capra Ibex ; horns 

 three feet long, subvertical, forming a semi-circle backwards. 



