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forest, or clambers the niountain side. The old 

 bulls are invariably found apart from the females, 

 which herd together in small troops, and are des- 

 titute of horns. 



Every open glade abovinds with the more common 

 species of game, such as the brindled gnoo, harte- 

 beest, sassayby, and quagga, together with the 

 ostrich and wild hog ; the tusks of this latter most 

 hideous animal attaining in some instances to an 

 enormous size, although its stature is insignificant. 

 Among the sedge-grown rivulets, the riet-buck is 

 common; and the mountain range and its grassy 

 environs, are the resort of six smaller species of 

 antelope, hitherto unnoticed in these pages; viz., 

 the klipspringer, rheebuck, rooe rheebuck, or nagor, 

 ourebi, steenbuck, and duiker,* of each of which I 

 obtained several specimens. Although described 

 in the Appendix, the remarkable character of the 

 two first demand further notice; the klipspringer, 

 which is closely allied to the chamois of Europe, 

 and coney-like, has its house on the mountain-top, 

 being furnished with singularly coarse hair, impart- 

 ing the appearance of a hedgehog; whilst the fur 

 of the rheebuck again, is of a curly 'woolly nature, 

 resembling that of the wild rabbit. 



Excepting the garrulous guinea-fowl, which usually 

 abounded in the vicinity of wood and water, and 

 whose grating cackle might here be nightly heard 

 as it ascended the trees to roost, feathered game 



* Oreotragus Saltatrix, Redtmca Capreolus, R. La/andii, R. 

 Scoparia, Tragulus Rupestris, aud Cephaiopus Mergens. 



