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rather short. Hair close and smooth. General colour of the 

 coat, intense glossy black, with an occasional cast of deep ches- 

 nut. A white streak commencing above each eye continued by 

 a pencil of long hairs covering the place of the suborbital 

 pouch (of which cavity no trace is to he found), and then 

 running down the side of the nose to the muzzle, which is 

 entirely white ; the same colour pervading the throat and one- 

 half of the cheek. Ears ten inches long ; narrow, tapering, 

 and pointed; white within, lively chesnut without, with black 

 pencilled tips. A broad half-crescent of deeper chesnut at the 

 base of each ear, behind. A small entire sharp black muzzle. 

 A copious standing black mane, somewhat inclined forwards, 

 five and a half inches high, extending from between the ears to 

 the middle of the back. Hair of the throat and neck longer 

 than that of the body Belly, buttocks, and inside of thighs, 

 pure white. A longitudinal dusky white stripe behind each 

 arm. Fore legs jet black inside and out, with a tinge of chesnut 

 on and below the knees. Hind legs black, with a lively chesnut 

 patch at and below the hock. Tail black ; long hair skirting 

 the posterior edge, terminating in a tuft which extends below 

 the hocks. 



Female smaller than the male, with smaller but similarly 

 shaped horns. Colour deep chesnut brown, verging upon black. 



Very rare. Gregarious in small families. Inhabits the great 

 mountain range which threads the eastern portion of the 

 Matabili country. 



25. Aigocerus Eqitina.* The Roan Antelope. Bastard 

 Gemsbok of the Cape Colonists. Etak of the Matahili. 



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

 extreme length. Horns very robust, about two feet in length, 

 strongly bent back scimitarwise, and nearly parallel ; with from 

 twenty-five to thirty prominent rings, more remote from the 

 orbits, and extending to within about four inches of the points. 

 Face and head hoary black, with a large white streak before 

 and behind each eye, formed of a pencil of long hairs. A 

 white spot between the horns, and a white muzzle. Ears of 



* If the Blue Antelope {Aigocerus Leucophcea) ever did exist, it is now 

 extinct. I am disposed to reuiird it as a variety of the Roan Antelope, and 

 Daniell'6 Takhaitze {A. Barhata) is probably so too. 



