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the chaffron. Three white spots on either cheek below the eye. 

 Chin white bearded. A long fringe of vaiiegateJ black and 

 white hair on the dewlap, and a standing mane on the neck and 

 withers. General colour of the hair a buff-grey or sky-blue, 

 marked with a wliite line along the spine, and intersected by five 

 or sis transverse lines running downwards to the belly, and four 

 more over the croup. Buttocks white. Legs rufous below the 

 knees. Tail two feet long, rufous, edged with white, tapering 

 to a point, and black at the tip. No suborbital sinus. An 

 entire moist muzzle. 



Female slighter, hornless, and with fewer and fainter white 

 markings. lias an udder with four mamnise. 



Gregarious. Still found within the Colony. Inhabits thickets 

 and wooded hills. 



22. Acronotiis Caama. The Caama. Hartebeest of the Cupe 

 Co/onisf. Intoosel of the Ma(abi/i. Caama of the Bechuana. 



Adult male about five feet high at the withers, and nine in 

 extreme length. Shoulders very elevated, and head very large 

 and long. The whole animal made up of triangles. Horns 

 placed u])on a high ridge above the froutals, very close at t! e 

 base; robust, divergent, and again approximating so as to form 

 a lozenge, with double flexures strongly pronounced, turned for- 

 wards, and the points backwards, with several prominent knots 

 oa the anterior surface. A black spot at their base, above the 

 forehead, continued behind, and terminating in front of the ears. 

 A black streak down the nose, commencing below the eyes, and 

 terminating at the nostrils. Chin black. A narrow black stripe 

 down the back of the neck. A black streak on the fore leg 

 commencing about raid shoulder; another down the hind leg 



, corrtlnencing about the middle of the buttock. A triangular 

 spot of white immediately above on each buttock, and a white 

 spot above each eye. Tail reaching to the hocks, covered with 



^ posteriorly directed black hair. General colour bright sienna, 

 with a deep red cast. A half muzzle. No suborbital sinus, but 

 a mucous discharge. Eyes fiery red. 



Female similar, but smaller, ^\ith more slender horns. 

 Mammae two. 



Inhabits the plains of the interior beyond the Orange River, 

 in immense herds. 



