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V KUTEBRATA. 



.luring tin- daytime, and quitting it only a1 early dawn for the purpose of feeding in the neigh- 

 boring meadows. It is at this time that it is pursued by the hunters, who station themselves on 

 the margin of the woods and shoot it as it comes out to graze. It affords excellent venison. 

 Th.' I'.: \. K-BTRIPEO l'-i SH-Bl OK, Antilqpe Ogilbii, is of a pale bay-brown color. The horns 



bort, thick, and conical. It is a native of Fernando I'-. 

 'I'lf Bai Bi bh-Buck, Cephalopua badius, U very like the last species, hut is of a darker bay- 

 r: the legs are blackish, and the neck bright hay, and not blackish-bay as in the Antilope 

 bii. It iN a native of Siena Leone. 

 The Bat Bi sh-Goat, C. dorsalis, is of a dark hay-color, with shoulders and legs darker. It 



• ative "t" sierra Leone. 

 The I '.i \. k 1m sh-Bi ' ■-. C. niger, is a native of the coast of Guinea, distinguished by its sooty- 

 black color. 



The N vi \i. Bi bh-Bi CK or Uiioode-Boc, C. JVatalensis, is of a bright red-bay color, and has 

 -hoit conical horns. It inhabits the forests about Port Natal and the country to the eastward, 

 living in the thick brushwood which fills up the intervals of the larger trees. It feeds on grass, 

 the young Bhoots of trees, and the delicate twigs of smaller shrubs. 



The Coqi Ki'C'N, C. rufilatU8, is of a deep reddish-bay color; the horns are conical, rather 

 elongated, obscurely annulated, and slightly recurved. This is the Grimmc of Buffon and F. Cu- 

 lt is a native of Western Africa. 

 The Gl i.\ bi, C. Maxwellii, is of a gray-brown or sooty-black color. It is the Royal Antilope 

 and Pigmy Antilope of Pennant and Shaw. It is a native of Senegal and Gambia. 



TIIE KLEE.VE-BOC. 



I V ^ icetzi,Cape GtJEVEljOr Kleene-Boc, C.pygmcea, is about one foot high at the shoul- 

 di r; the horns one and a half inch l<>ng in the male, three-quarters of an inch in the female. The 



r is a dark slaty-brown. It is called by the Dutch colonists of the Cape Jfleenc-Boc, Kb 

 Blauio-Boc, Blauw Bokje, all signifying Little Goat or Little Blue Goat. It inhabits South 

 and lives singly or in pair- among the bushes. It is extremely active, and of a mild and 

 timid disposition; but from the nature of the thick bushes in which it resides is not often seen 

 even in those districts where it most abounds. It exhibits considerable sagacity in eluding pur- 

 suit, and when domesticated soon become- familiar, and learns to distinguish those about it and 

 to answer to it- nam. . 



This Bpecies is the . 1. ccerulea of Colonel Smith and the A. pygmcea of M. Desmarest, who con- 

 founds it with the < raevei. 



I he Blagk-ri mpeo Guevei, C. melanor?ieu8, is of a gray color, with the rump and upper part 

 of the hack of a black color. It is a native of Fernando Po. 



