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THE TAKHAITZE. 

 Antilope barbata. DANIELI. 



PLATE XXIII. 

 The Takbaitze, Daniell, African Scenery. 



THIS beautiful Antelope is known from the figure 

 of Daniell, which has served for our illustration, and 

 it has been surmised that the above was only anothei 

 name for A. equina and leucophcea. The following is 

 the notice which accompanies Daniell's plate : 



ie This extraordinary animal, which has never be- 

 fore been drawn or described, is equally unknown to 

 the colonists of the Cape, being first met with in the 

 parallel of latitude under which Latakoo is situated. 

 In the neighbourhood of this place we had the eood 

 fortune to fall in with a couple of them. They are 

 exceedingly shy, and, when wounded, dangerous to 

 come near ; nor do the Booshuanas consider it safe 

 to approach them in the rutting season. They rare- 

 ly kill them, as they do most other antelopes, with 

 the spear or assagai, but entrap them in deep pits 

 covered with sticks and earth, in the same manner as 

 the Bosjesmans take the hippopotamus. The flesh 

 is esteemed a great delicacy. This animal is, in ge- 

 neral, from four and a half to five feet high, of a bluish 



