Mammalia. 223 



Boselaphas Canna. (The Canna.) Adult male somewliat 

 smaller than the Iinpoofo, more slender ; head shorter ; horns 

 without proniiueut spiral ridge ; but obtusely angular in front 

 and t'cint, twisting this angle into a spiral curve : they are more 

 parallel, very closely wrinkled, and bent back beneath the fa- 

 cial line with the point forward, seventeen inches long in a male, 

 twenty -two inches in a female ; narrow dark streak down the 

 forehead ; small lachrymary or rather prolonged inner canthus 

 of the eyes, with a dark angular spot beneath ; shoulders not 

 much elevated ; mane on neck not recurrent ; general colour a 

 mixed tone of dark grey brown ; sternum white ; limbs nearly 

 black. 



Inhabits South Africa, — principally beyond the Gareip. 



D. Canna, H. Smith, MS. Bastard Eland of the Cape 

 Colonists. Y'Gaan of the Hottentots. 



Sub-genus Strepsxc ergs. —fforns in the male only, smooth, 

 without wrinkles, pale coloured, with dark tips, forming regular 

 spiral curves, and issuing from the summit of the frontal crest ; 

 the nucleus with a cavity at base, and porous above ; a broad 

 moist muzzle ; real dewlap ; long mane on the neck ; a beard on 

 the chin; ivkite streak over the eyes; ears broad; shoulder 

 elevated; tail covered ivilh long hairs; females having an udder 

 offour mamma:; stature large. 



Strepsiceros Capensis. (The Koodoo.) Adult male four 

 feet high at the shoulder ; above eight feet long ; horns bulky, 

 compressed, with an anterior ridge, forming witii the born two 

 complete spiral circles, the tips turned outwards and forward ; 

 colour pale, tips dark with a white point, and three feet long ; 

 chaffron straight ; muzzle very broad ; ears oblique, very broad, 

 tips pointed ; neck thick; withers elevated ; dewlap anteriorly 

 square; forehead black, a white line passing over the orbits, 

 unites on the chalTron ; chin white-bearded ; long fringe of hair 

 on tlie dewlap, and on the neck a standing mane ; general colour 

 of the fur a buff-grey, marked with a white line along the spine; 

 and intersected by four or five others running downwards 

 towards the belly, and four more across the croup ; buttocks 

 white ; colour beneath rufous ; tail white above, edged with 

 rufous and black at the end ; female hornless, and with fewer 

 and fainter white markings. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Strepsiceros, Caius apud Gcsn. Gondoma, Coesdoes, Buff. 

 Coudou, Vosmacr. A. Strepsiceros, Auctor. Striped Ant. 

 Penn. 



