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body are white. These animals are often brought to the Cape market 

 for food. 



4. Damalis 'ALBiFRONS. The Bless BocK. 



PurpHsh red ; face and back of thighs white ; rump Hke back. 



Bless hok or Antilope alhifrons, Burchell, Trav. ii. 335 ? ; Harris, 

 W. A. A. t. 21. — Bubalis alhifrons, Sundev. — Damalis alhifrons. 

 Gray, Knows. Menag. 22. t. 22. f. 1, half-grown. 



Inhabits S. Africa. 



A half-grown specimen was darker, with a pale spot between the 

 horns, separated by a dark spot from the white on the face ; the 

 temple was white, with a white spot ; the legs had a brown stripe 

 down the outer side of the front ; and the throat and rump brown, 

 the latter without any white spot. 



Dr. Burchell, when speaking of the Bless hock, proposed to call it 

 A. alhifrons, as the name Pygarga has been used for both the 

 Springer and the Bless bock ; but it is not certain if he intended by 

 Bless bock this or the preceding species. Captain Harris's figure 

 shows the distinction of the species. 



**** Horn unknown. 



5. Damalis? Zebra. The Doria. 



Bright golden brown, with numerous black cross bands narrowing 

 at the sides ; outer sides of fore and hind legs dark. 



Antilope Zebra, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1836. — A. Doria, Ogilby, 

 P. Z. S. 1836, 121 ; Frazer, Z. T. t. .—A. Zebrata, Robert.— 

 Fiverra Zebra, Whitfield's MSS. — Cephalophusl zebra. Gray, Cat. 

 Mam. B. M. — Damalisi zebra, Gray, Knows. Menag. 22. 



Inhabits W. Africa ; Gambia. Brit. Mus. 



Skins without head and feet are alone known ; they are brought 

 down by the negroes. In the Catalogue of the Mammalia in the 

 British Museum I have referred this species with doubt to Cephalo- 

 phus. Mr. Ogilby (P. Z. S. 1836, 121) thinks it should be referred 

 with the Harness Antelopes to Calliope. I am inclined, on account 

 of the dark mark on the outside of the limb, to think it belongs to 

 the genus Damalis. Mr. Whitfield believes it to be a species of 

 Viverra. 



THE STREPSICERES. 



The animals of this family are peculiar as being the only hollow- 

 horned or Bovine Ruminants which are marked with white stripes 

 and spots. The bands are not very distinct in the Impoofo or Eland, 

 but they are easily to be observed in the female, if it is looked at ob- 

 liquely, which was brought home by Burke, and presented to the 

 British Museum by the Earl of Derby. Their nostrils are near to- 

 gether in front. They have four teats in a small udder. The horns 

 generally incline backwards from their base ; the skull, which some- 

 what resembles that of the Deer, has a rather small nasal opening, 

 no suborbital pit, and only a small suborbital fissure. 



Colonel H. Smith forms of the larger species three of his four sub- 



