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Instances of the colour being preserved after death. 



interior parts of the legs, throughout their whole 

 length, are as white as snow; and the head is 

 beautifully spotted with white. 



" I did not observe," continues he, " as Dr. 

 Sparrman says, that this antelope, when alive, 

 resembles blue velvet, and that when dead the 

 skin changes its colour; living or dead, it ap- 

 peared to me always alike. The tints of that 

 which I brought with me never varied. I saw 

 another at Amsterdam, which had been kept for 

 more than fifteen years. The case was tke same 

 with regard to that belonging to the governor of 

 the Cape: it Was still fresher than mine; but, in 

 other respects, they were equal. I cannot help 

 adding here, that I never found this animal pro- 

 perly represented in any of the engravings tit 

 figures which I have hitherto seen of it." 



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