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at the South Kensington Natural History Museum. He was 

 interested, because the Museum had not yet one specimen of 

 the sort in its vast collection. Mr. Thomas considered mine to 

 belong to a new species quite recently added to science by 

 the German traveller and naturalist in whose honour it has been 

 named Neumanni. But there appears to be a slight difference 

 which places my two specimens as a sort of connecting-link 

 between the South African steinbok and Neumann's. The 

 South African species has a black patch on the nose and a black 

 horse-shoe patch on the forehead. Neumann's has neither the 

 one nor the other. My two specimens do not have the black 

 horse-shoe patch, but they both have the black patch on the 

 nose. Mr. Thomas places, therefore, my specimens amongst 

 the Neumanni, as they are nearest to the specimen described 

 as Neumanni. This antelope has tiny horns, somewhat rugose. 

 The general colour is a rich brown. It frequents bush-covered 

 districts in the neighbourhood of water. It is either solitary or 

 in companionship with one or two others. It is a pretty and 

 graceful animal ; and it can run apparently as fast on three legs 

 as on four. One specimen I bowled over with a single shot ; 

 the other, in spite of a broken hind-leg, gave me some trouble 

 before 1 could secure it. 



